De rosa et partibus eius : De succi rosarum temperatura, nec non De rosis Persicis, quas Alexandrinas vocant, libellus

46, that is, 48 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm "The first edition of this landmark in botany, "the first book in Western literature to be exclusively to the rose".... De rosa et partibus eius (c. 1540) is an early work by the renowned Seville physician-botantist Nicola?s Monardes (1493-1588), whose Dos libros (1565) later would become the first printed work on the botanical and medicinal discoveries made in the Americas."--Martayan Lan Rare Books, bookseller, datasheet "While scattered discussions of the botanical-medicinal properties of the rose had appeared since antiquity, and the vast symbolism of the flower long pervaded literary culture (from the Bible, to medieval romance, to Shakespeare, Blake, Gertrude Stein, etc., etc.), "there were few works dealing exclusively with the rose prior to 1800".... Monardes in De rosa et partibus eius compiles references from classical to modern authors and adds information from his own experience (the botanical garden he cultivated in Seville would come to gain considerable renown). While Monardes gives special attention to medicinal preparations of the plant ... he also gives space to the physical, olfactory and aesthetic properties of the flower in its various varieties)...."--Martayan Lan Rare Books, bookseller, datasheet "Appended to the De rosa et partibus eius, apparently as an afterthought, is Monardes' important early work on citrus fruits: this is a letter in which Monardes "pointed out the hybrid character of the citrus, a fact not proved up to the end of the twentieth century."--Martayan Lan Rare Books, bookseller, datasheet "Monardes' letter on citrus fruit appears in the last leaves of the book. In a prefatory statement he notes that while De rosa et partibus eius was already in press, his printer, Domenicus de Robertis, contacted him to say that there would be several blank leaves at the end of the books's last quire and that Monardes thus should quickly find an additional text to fill out the work so that printin