Cruydt-boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe [...] Item, int laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert.

Folio: [36]-1492-[60] pp. (somewhat browning, spotting & marg. staining, French title soiled by paint, sm. def. at corner pp. 103, 435 & 605, sm. wormtrack quires Bbbb-Gggg, full-page tear p. 947 rep. with tape, marg. dampstaining in last quires).

Old half calf, spine on 6 raised bands (binding rather worn: rubbed, corners bumped, head dam., front joint starting to split). Acceptable copy.

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 (title page rather clumsily hand-coloured) and some 1430 woodcut ills of plants and herbs.  Ref. B.B. II:226-227 D-121. - Nissen 518. - Krivatsy 3304. - Bibl. Medica Neerl. I:502. - Matagne (Namur) D-99. - De botanica in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden 108. - Bn-Opale plus. - BL. - Not in Wellcome. Prov. Mod. bookpl.