Nova stirpium adversaria: perfacilis vestigatio, luculentaque accessio ad priscorum, praesertim Dioscoridis, & recentiorum, materiam medicam. Additis aliquot remediorum formulis.

Folio: [4]-471-[1 bl.]-15-[1 bl.]-24-[15] pp. (3 correction slips with woodcut ill. on pp. 11, 33 and 151 part 2 (not mentioned by Voet; 2 of them also loosely inserted); a few cancels: the woodcut of p. 252 and p. 400, dampstaining at the end in the margins).

Mod. sp. brown calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, mod. endpapers. Good interior copy.

First edition, part 2, 3 and 4 in variant B (Voet) of an extensive illustrated survey of European plants by M. de Lobel (1538-1616), Flemish physician and botanist living in London. Ill. with more than 1.000 woodcuts in-text engraved by Cornelius Muller, Gérard Janssen van Campen, Arnold Nicolai and Antoine vander Leest, after Pieter vander Borcht; 3 correction slips with woodcut ill. (not mentioned by Voet). Our copy contains 3 parts (first part not present): 1) "Nova stirpium adversaria", an introduction to classical medicine describing c. 1.400 species followed by the "Appendix nonnullarum stirpium" dealing with 34 rare plants which were, at that time, newly introduced in the Low Countries. 2) "Formula aliquot remediorum": formula remedies after the notes of the French doctor Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), professor of L'Obel. And 3) "In stirpium observationes et adversaria" with indexes in Latin, French, German, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Italian. Typographical title within a portico (Plantin's mark on the first).
Ref. BB III:1128-1133:L-118 (extr. descr.). - Voet III:1578B. - BT I:1975, II:8668 and 8669. - Nissen (BBI) II:218. - Durling 2829. - Pettegree (NB) 19453. - Adams L-1382. - Machiels L-415 and 416. - USTC 401688. - Pritzel 5548.
Prov. Robert Travers, Dublin, 1836 (ms. entry on verso title).