Cruydt-boeck volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe: met biivoeghsels achter elck capitel, uyt verscheyden cruydt-beschrijvers. Item, in 't laetste een beschrijving vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schristen van Carolus Clusius [...].

Folio: [36]-1492-[11] pp. (browning, some foxing and soiling and a few spotting, the last 49 pp. of the index are missing).

Solid 19th-c. half brown leather, gilt orn. flat spine.

The last and most extensive of all Plantin Press editions of the great botanical encyclopaedia by Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585). Illustrated with a nice engr. title with medallion portraits of Dodoens and Clusius and some 1430 woodcut ill. of plants and herbs. Text in 2 cols and in Gothic type.
Ref. BB II:226/227:D-121. - STCV 3119583. - USTC 1001695. - Nissen 518. - Krivatsy 3304. - Bibl. Medica Neerl. I:502. - De botanica in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden 108. - BnF. - BL. - Not in Wellcome.