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Botany - DODONAEUS, Rembertus - Cruydt-boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe (...) Item, in’t laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Antwerp, Plantin Press (B. Moretus),...

Estimation : 1500 / 1500
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
1644
folio, cont. blindst. calf over wood (rubbed, sl. wormed), edges bevelled inside, spine on 5 raised bands (head & tail dam.), metal catches (clasps gone), [36]-1492-[60] pp. (paper age-toned, sm. wormtracks and single wormholes in last quires, final blank loose). Very good 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 and some 1430 woodcut ills of plants and herbs. Cont. engr. portrait of Dodoens pasted on verso of half-title, facing title, and surrounded by a cut-out border from a 15th-c. illuminated manuscript with coat-of-arms (blackened).
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