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Biblical botany] - LEMNIUS, Levinus - Herbarum atque arborum quae in Bibliis passim obviae sunt, & ex quibus sacri vates similitudines desumunt (...) dilucida explicatio. Antwerp, (H. de Laet for) W. Simon, 1566, 8vo, mod. boards, [12]-134-[2] ff. (minor soiling, sm. def. in top margin of last f.). Very good copy.
Rare treatise by the Low Countries physician Lemnius (1505-1568) on plants and trees used in biblical comparisons. The ed. is dedicated to Thomas Tilius, and is also of lexicographical interest (vernacular plant names). The 1587 English trsl. is titled “An herbal for the Bible”. Oval woodcut portrai t of Lemnius on verso of title. Woodcut mark on title. Old monastic ownership entry. Ref. BT 1846. Pettegree NB 18861. Adams L-421. Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:505. Cp. Pritzel 5213. Not in Durling, Wellcome.