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Paris: Simon Le Moyne, 1635. First Edition of the first Canadian flora and one of the earliest North American herbals. The author, Jacques Philippe Cornut, was professor of medicine at the University of Paris. Although he himself never visited New France, he was able to study specimens which were brought or sent back to France by explorers and Jesuits. Many were provided by Jean and Vespasien Robin who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and from Pierre Morin and his family who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Eighty-six different species are described, thirty native to north-eastern America, a number of them for the first time. Among these is the Guernsey lily, so-named from its introduction into England some fifty years later when specimens were found on the island following the wreck of a ship lost en route from Cape Town with bulbs among the cargo (cfBlunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950). Also illustrated here for the first… Read More