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Extensive searches across major library catalogs (including Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and scholarly databases) yielded no record of an English translation of Antoine Du Pinet's 1567 'Historia plantarum'. The work is a Latin abridgment of Mattioli's herbal, and while it is referenced in historical bibliographies of herbals, no English version exists.
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Antoine Du Pinet’s 16th-century handbook turns the wild flora of the Renaissance into a precise medical toolkit. Readers will discover how ancient medicinal theory categorized the natural world through the lens of habitat, language, and humoral balance.
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