Description
Item Description:Signatures: A-V⁸ [$5 ( -L4, R4) signed].
Pagination: Page 22 wrongly numbered as 21; page 308 wrongly numbered as 307. Last page blank.
Privilege on leaves V7-8 dated 1565: "Privilegivm... Datum in ciuitate nostra Vienna, Austriae, ...M.D.LXV... Maximilianvs..."
Woodcut printer's device (motto: Constantia et labore) on title page.
Illustrations: 108 unsigned woodcut plant illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht, engraved by Cornelis Muller, Arnold Nicolai, and Gerard van Kampen. -- Voet, II, 824-831.
Headpieces; initials.
Includes indices (one in Greek).
Text (Latin italic) interspersed with Greek and black letter German names.
Botanical study of plants remarkable for their flowers or their scent.
The Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection copy contains a bookplate reading "Caroli ac Mariae Lacaitae Filiorumque. Selham, Sussex."
The Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection copy is bound in a single volume which contains the following 2 titles: Florvm, et coronariarvm odoratarvmqve nonnvllarvm herbarvm historia / Rembert Dodoens. (Antverpiae : Christophori Plantini, 1568) -- Frvmentorvm, legvminvm, palvstrivm et aqvatilivm herbarvm, ac eorvm, qvae eopertinent, historia / Rembert Dodoens. (Antverpiae : Christophori Plantini, 1566).
Issued with the author's Historia frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilivm herbarum, ac eorum, quae eò pertinent. Antwerp, 1569.
The Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection copy is wanting the Historia Historia frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilivm herbarum, ac eorum, quae eò pertinent. Antwerp, 1569.
Physical Description:307, that is, 308 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (octavo)
Place of Publication:Belgium -- Antwerp.