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Contant, Paul (ca.1572-1632)

Apothecary of Poitiers. Travelled in France,
Germany and Italy, procuring seeds etc. of plants
unknown in his own locality. Established a botanic
garden at Poitiers, which became very extensive, and
his "Jardin et Cabinet poetique" (1608) describes
the plants grown there. His "Eden", published a
few years later, is a rhymed enumeration of all
plants then known. See Michaud, Biog. Univ. 9:496.

Le jardin et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire 
de Poictiers. Poictiers, A. Mesnier, 1609. 99 p.
(Bib. Nat. Paris)

-----  (In: Contant, Jacques. Oeuvres de Jacques et
Paul Contant pére et fils. Poictiers, J. Thoreau et la 
Vve d'A. Mesnier, 1628. F°. ib. 1640) (Arn. Arb. (1628);
Bib. Nat. Paris)

Contents: 1. Les commentaires sur Dioscoride;
par J. Contant; 2. Le second Eden; 3. Exagoge
mirabilium naturae e Gazophylacio; 4. Synopsis
plantarum cum ethymologiis; 5. Le jardin et cabinet 
poetique.

Cook, Moses

The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-
trees; also, how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks,
avenues, lawns, hedges, etc. London, Peter Parker, 1676.
207 p. (Arn. Arb.; Brit. Mus.; Mass. Hort. Soc.;
Rothamsted; Thordarson)

-----  Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise
of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A discovery of subterranean
treasure. London, P. Parker, 1679. 204, 24 p. (Dept.
Agr.)

Brit. Mus. Cat. says this ed. is a duplicate of
the 1st, 1676 , with a new title-page and addition
of tract by Plattes.

-----  1700 . (Johnson, p.116)

-----  The 2d ed., very much corrected. London, Printed 
for D. Browne, 1717. 276 p. (Dept. Agr.; Arn. Arb.;
Brit. Mus.; Mass. Hort. Soc.)

-----  3d ed., cor. London, Printed for E. Bell, 1724.
273 p. (Arn. Arb.; Mass. Hort. Soc.; Bib. Nat. Paris;
Brit. Mus.)
        