DODOENS, REMBERT. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus 1616. Folio, 358 x 230 mm., contemporary blind-panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked preserving original spine, clasps and catches removed, front free endpage excised, library stamp at top of engraved titlepage, light stains to a few preliminary leaves, otherwise a tall, clean copy. Second edition (first 1583) corrected and expanded and constituting the definitive edition of Dodoens' botanical writings. Engraved architectural titlepage with figures of Theophrastus and Dioscorides and various flowering plants, roman letter, eight-line and smaller woodcut capitals, 1309 woodcuts in the text (six of them copied from the Julia Anicia Codex of Dioscorides), Plantin's woodcut device on last page. Hunt 201 ("best revised and enlarged edition"); Nissen 517; Stafleu & Cowan 1489; cf. Anderson, counting 1,341 woodcuts. Provenance : Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate and ink-stamp.
DODOENS, REMBERT. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus 1616. Folio, 358 x 230 mm., contemporary blind-panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked preserving original spine, clasps and catches removed, front free endpage excised, library stamp at top of engraved titlepage, light stains to a few preliminary leaves, otherwise a tall, clean copy. Second edition (first 1583) corrected and expanded and constituting the definitive edition of Dodoens' botanical writings. Engraved architectural titlepage with figures of Theophrastus and Dioscorides and various flowering plants, roman letter, eight-line and smaller woodcut capitals, 1309 woodcuts in the text (six of them copied from the Julia Anicia Codex of Dioscorides), Plantin's woodcut device on last page. Hunt 201 ("best revised and enlarged edition"); Nissen 517; Stafleu & Cowan 1489; cf. Anderson, counting 1,341 woodcuts. Provenance : Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate and ink-stamp.
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