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Five theses on Myrrh, with Afzelius as praeses

1. A FZELIUS, Adamus. De origine myrrhae controversa. Specimen primum [- quintum].Uppsala, Zeipel and Palmblad (part 1–3); Regiae Academicae Typographi (part 4–5), 1818–1829. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4º. Modern green boards. € 225

First edition of five theses on the origin and uses of Myrrh, all with the Swedish botanist Adamus Afzelius (1750–1837) as praeses. The respondent are respectively D. Malmberg, A.G. Frank, O. Gothén, C.M. Äkerblom, and A. Holmblad.Some marginal foxing and water stains, otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed.

BMC NH, p. 14; Krok, Afzelius 13; Pritzel 31.

Description of plants in Leiden University’s botanical garden

3. BOER H A AV E , Herman. Historia plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugduni-Batavorum crescunt cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus.London [printed in the Netherlands], “sumptibus Societatis” [the Royal Society?], 1738. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 12º. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. € 1850

Third edition, with corrections and an expanded index, of Boerhaave’s description of the plants in Leiden University’s botanical garden. It gives an account of the various species, including the origins of the plants, their names, characteristics and possible medicinal properties. It includes trees, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and marine plants, including cannabis and various American, East Indian and other exotic species. Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) automatically became head of the botanical garden. He published his first catalogue of plants, Index plantarum, in 1710, and added more than two thousand species by the second edition in 1720, reflecting Boerhaave’s extensive additions to the garden. Although the present work bears Boerhaave’s name, it is believed to have been prepared by one of his students with the aid of lecture notes.With a manuscript note in the fore-edge margin of the title-page, referring to the part-two title-page. Lacking the final blank leaf. With very slight browning, but otherwise in very good condition. The hinges are cracked and the spine label and extremities slightly damaged, but the binding is otherwise good. Revised edition of an important botanical catalogue, especially valuable for its insights into Boerhaave’s teaching methods.

Arnold Arboretum I, p. 91; ESTC T130372; Henrey 463; Kuijlen & Wijnands 91.

Catalogue of the most comprehensive tobacco collection in the world

4. BROOK S, Jerome E. Tobacco its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr.New York, The Rosenbach Company and the New York Public Library, 1937–1969. 15 volumes (including 10 supplements). 2º (34 × 25.5 cm). Illustrated throughout. The first 5 volumes in original red cloth and the 10 supplements in original paper wrappers. € 950

First edition of the catalogue of the George Arents Collection, “the largest and most comprehensive library in the world devoted to the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. The collection contains both printed and manuscript works — as well as prints, drawings, and ephemera — dating from 1507 to the present, representing Continental Europe, England, and the Americas.” (NYPL). The collection was donated to the New York Public Library in 1942.In very good condition, one volume with minor damage to title-label on spine.

Extensive compendium on medicinal plants5. CHOMEL , Pierre-Jean-Baptiste. Abregé de l’histoire des plantes usuelles, dans lequel on donne leurs noms différens, tant François que Latins.Including: Catalogus plantarum officinalium, secumdum earum facultates dispositus.Paris, sons of Nyon, 1738. 3 volumes. 8º. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. € 400

Fifth edtion of a French herbal compiled by the French botanist Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chomel (1671–1740). The first two volumes list numerous plants arranged according to their medicinal abilities. Also included is a list with all the French and Latin names of the plants. The third volume contains the supplement, first published in the fourth volume of 1730, and the Catalogus plantarum officinalium, secumdum earum facultates dispositus, published for the first time in the present edition.First few leaves of volume 1 stained and some (water) stains throughout. Bindings worn along the extremities and slightly damaged at the head and foot on the spines. Otherwise in good condition.

Pritzel 1707.

Plants and dyes6. DE BEUNIE , Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk zyn de profytelykste planten van dit land, ende welk is hun gebruyk zoo in de medicynen als in andere konsten.With:(2) DU RONDE AU, François. Mémoires sur la question: quelles sont les plantes les plus utiles des Pays-Bas, & que lest leur usage dans la medicine & dans les arts.(3) DE BEUNIE , Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk is de beste ende onkostbaerste maniere van vlasse gaeren ende andere vegitabile stoffen swert te verwen, …Brussels, Antonius d’Ours, 1772. 3 works in 1 volume. 4º. Modern blue paper wrappers. € 975

Three rare related treatises concerning the uses of certain plants. The two by the licentiate in medicine Joannes Baptista De Beunie are the winning answers to a competition of the Letterkundige Maatschappij van Brussel (“Literary Society of Brussels”) and treat the medical and other applications of plants from the Low Countries and the dyeing of cloth. Du Rondeau has some observations concerning the first question and treats the growing of Rhubarb, dyeing with fresh madder and tanning leather.Some leaves in the third work a bit browned, otherwise in very good condition.

Ad 1: Anet (1 copy); Pritzel 757; STCV (3 copies); WorldCat (6 copies); ad 2: Anet (1 copy); Pritzel 2561; STCV (3 copies); WorldCat (6 copies, incl. 1 the same); ad 3: STCV (1 copy); WorldCat (5 copies); not in Anet; Pritzel.

Homeopathic properties of plants, with 299 hand-coloured plates

7. GOULLON, Heinrich. Beschreibung der in der homöopatischen Pharmacopöe aufgenommenen Pflanzen nebst driehundert Tafeln naturgetrau colorirter Abbildungen ...Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch Verlagshandlung, 1865–1867. 2 volumes. 2º. With 299 hand-coloured engraved plates, numbered 1–300 (nos. 157 & 158 in 1 plate). Modern black half calf. € 12 500

Rare first and only edition of a work on homeopathic medicinal plants written by the German physician Heinrich Goullon jr. (1836–1906), consisting of a text and atlas volume. The text volume starts with a Latin and a German register of all the plants included, followed by a brief preface on homeopathy following the principles of its founder: Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843). The main part of the work gives descrip-tions of numerous plants, including their external features, environments, official names, healing qualities, applications and a description of the plant’s components as shown in the plates. The atlas contains 299 hand-coloured plates showing many of the plants described in the text volume, usually accompanied by their flowers, roots, seeds or fruits. The plates were issued over two years in 60 instalments. Goullon also wrote other medical works, most of them on alternative (homeopathic) medicines for diseases like tuberculosis. His father was a homeopathic physician as well. Even though the present work is very elaborate, it is often overlooked in the secondary literature.Only very slightly browned and a few plates slightly foxed. Binding in very good condition, spine slightly discoloured. Overall a very good copy.

WorldCat (9 copies); cf. F.D. Schroers, Lexicon deutschsprachiger Homöopathen (2006), p. 42; not in Nissen, BBI; Plesch; Pritzel.

Rare practical medical handbooks for the Prince of Orange and the common people

8. JACOBS, Heyman. Den kleynen herbarius ofte kruydt-boecxken, ...Amsterdam, printed by the widow of Gerrit Hendricxsz. van Breughel (colophon: for “Harmen Jansz Muller”[!]), 1638.With: (2) [BONTIUS, Reinier? and others]. Vorstelick gheschenk. Dat is: een medecynboeck. Inhoudende veele geproefde ende goet ghevonden medecijn stucken: ...Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1631. 2 works in 1 volume. 8º. Near contemporary blind-tooled vellum (dated 1650). € 3250

Very rare editions of two popular medical works, one in an unrecorded issue. While one was compiled for Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange, both were published for the household use of the common folk.Ad 1: Unrecorded “Muller” issue of a very rare early edition of a very popular home medical guide by Heyman Jacobs (active 1596–1645). After the prelims, the medical herbal proper, with the text divided into two parts, gives accounts of the medicinal properties of 52 and 183 numbered nuts, berries, herbs, grains, fruits, roots, flowers and other plants, foods or substances, with instructions for their preparation and use to cure or prevent illnesses. The account of tobacco, not yet cultivated in the Netherlands when Jacobsz. wrote, notes that it is imported from the West Indies and can be smoked in a pipe or steeped in wine overnight for drinking. The book continues with a “Remedie boecxken” with medicinal recipes intended for the poor, arranged by the various ailments, and ends with a guide for visiting and comforting the sick and dying, followed by a few additional recipes.Ad 2: Third known edition of a very rare anonymous medical guide with 639 numbered entries, most of them discussing a particular ailment and recommending a medicine and/or other treatment. At the end is an alphabetical index of the ailments. The Dutch title can be translated as “Princely gift, or: a medicine book”. It provides a remarkable window into medical practices in the household of the Dutch Princes of Orange. We have not identified the owner “BS” who had the book bound in 1650. With 1 quire signature and a couple catchwords slightly shaved, the first title-page slightly worn and several corners folded, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is somewhat worn, with 8 of the 13 different binding stamps crisply impressed and the other 5 rather faint. Two rare popular editions on practical medicine.

Ad 1: cf. BMN I, p. 502; Krivatsy 6187–6190; Waller 858; ad 2: BMN I, p. 377; KVK & WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Krivatsy 12484 (1662 ed.).

On the Lamium Plinii9. KOENIG, Samuel Fridericus. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Lamio Plinii.Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1742. 4º. With a folding engraved plate. Disbound. € 300

Botanical, chemical and pharmaceutical description of the Lamium Plinii, a dead-nettle from the family Lamiaceae. Dissertation by Samuel Fridericus Koenig.In very good condition, with traces of paper wrappers.

Pritzel 4802.

Practical encyclopaedia of 420 medicinal plants and their uses

10. L A NGH A M, William. The garden of health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against divers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. ... The second edition corrected and emended.London, Thomas Harper, 1633. 4º. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1800?), gold-tooled spine with the (ca. 1835?) WHM monogram of William Henry Miller. € 2850

Second edition of an English encyclopaedia of practical medical botany for household use as well as for doctors and apothecaries, discussing about 420 plants, first published in 1597. It describes the plant’s parts and their uses, the preparation of medicines from the plant and their use in treating various ailments, and includes some American plants that had only recently reached Europe when Langham wrote. The books emphasis on common plants that “are gotten without any great cost or labour”, suggests it is intended for household use and for those who cared for the poor, but it also gives instructions for distillation and other processes that an amateur would be less likely to attempt than an apothecary. While the title must have been influenced by the 1485 Gart der Gesundheit or 1491 [H]ortus sanitatis, the text is quite independent.With worm trails slightly affecting the text in about 15 leaves, damage to the lower outside corner of a few leaves, affecting a few words on Z4, a smudge around the date on the title-page and slightly browned, but otherwise in good condition. The spine and hinges show some cracks and the boards a few small worm holes, but otherwise also good. A practical medical encyclopaedia describing about 420 medicinal plants and their uses, intended primarily for poor people.

Alden & Landis 633/67; Hunt 224; Krivatsy 6665.

Dictionary of medical herbs, with 25 engraved plates

11. LEMERY, Nicolas. Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples, contenant leurs noms, origine, choix, principes, vertus, étimologies; & ce qu’il y a de particulier dans les animaux, dans les végétaux & dans les minéraux: ...Paris, D’Houry, 1759. 4º. With an engraved author’s portrait and 25 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 850

Fifth edition of a dictionary of medical herbs compiled by the French chemist Nicolas Lemery (1645–1715). “Lemery’s chief contributions to pharmacy were his two complementary works, the Pharmacopée universelle and Drogues Simples. These are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively giving the sources, virtues, doses, and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dic-tionary of pharmaceuticals” (DSB).With a manuscript owner’s inscription on title-page, crossed out. First flyleaf restored, slightly browned around the margins and some occas-sional spots, otherwise in good condition.

DSB VIII, pp. 172–175; Wellcome III, p. 488.

Mattioli’s extensive commentary on Dioscorides, with 1478 woodcuts

12. M ATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea and Antoine DU PINET (transl.). Les commentaires de M.P. André Matthiolus, medicin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anarzabeenm de la matiere medicinale.Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1620. 2º. With the title-page printed in red and black and with a woodcut author’s portrait (repeated on the last page), and 1478 woodcuts in text. Early 20th-century(?) half sheepskin parchment € 1200

Reissue of the 1619 edition of Antoine Du Pinet’s French translation of the chief work of the Italian phycisian and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577), “an excellent botanist and a renowned physician” (Hunt). The book is presented as a commentary on Dioscorides’s De materia medica, but the title doesn’t do justice to the book, for the long commentaries contain an account of all the plants known to Mattioli. It includes a certain number of new plants found by himself, but most of the species which he described for the first time, were not his own discoveries, but communicated to him, by others. Besides medical plants the books also contains short zoological chapters and a chapter on distillation. The success of the work was phenomenal and it is said that 32 000 copies of the early editions were sold.With the art nouveau bookplate of the Horticultural Society of New York on paste-down. With some faint marginal water staining, some leaves slightly creased, and a few small spots; a good copy.

Krivatsy 7571; Nissen, BBI 1312; cf. Arber, pp. 92-97; French vernacular books 37144-37158; this edition not in Hunt; Wellcome.

Dutch adaptation of Zorn’s “Icones plantarum medicinalium”, with 600 hand-coloured plates

13. [OSK A MP, Dirk Leonard, Martin HOUTTU Y N and Carl K R AUSS]. Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen.Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp and son, 1796 (vols. I–III), 1800 (vols. IV–VI). 6 volumes. Large 8º (23 × 14.5 cm). With wood-engraved illustration on each of the 6 title-pages and 600 numbered engraved plates (100 in each volume), all coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, modern endpapers. € 6500

First and only edition of the Dutch adaptation of Johannes Zorn’s Icones plantarum medicinalium (1779–1790). Each volume contains 100 hand-coloured illustrations of medicinal plants, trees and herbs taken from Zorn, with short descriptions in Dutch (from Houttuyn’s Natuurlijke historie) and Latin (from Gmelin’s edition of Linnaeus’s Systema natura) plus an account of their pharma-ceutical applications in Dutch. It was edited by Dirk Leonard Oskamp, Martin Houttuyn and Johan Carl Krauss.With owner’s inscription in pencil on the half-titles. Bindings subtly restored. In very good condition and nearly untrimmed.

Bradley III, p. 55; Landwehr, Coloured plates 2; Nissen, BBI 2203; Stafleu & Cowan 3926.

Herbal medicine in Ceylon14. PIÉL AT, Barthélemy. Insulae Ceyloniae thesaurus medicus, vel Laboratorium Ceylonicum.Amsterdam, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1679. 12º. 18th-century(?) vellum. € 4750

First and only edition of a little Latin pocket guide to herbal medicine in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), with about 120 recipes for medicinal preparations. Piélat (1640?–1681), best known as a teacher and as the author of schoolbooks, produced this little guide largely based on the Dutch Laboratorium chymicum gehouden op het ... eylandt Ceylon, written by the Swedish physician Herman Niklas Grim (1641–1711), who worked in service of the VOC (Dutch East India Company).With 2 quires and 2 endleaves browned, the front endleaf also causing some patches on the title-page and 2 following leaves, and with an occasional marginal water stain, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is slightly rubbed and has a couple small stains but is still good.

Landwehr, VOC 840 (2 copies); Krivatsy 6158; STCN (3 copies).

Poisonous plants and mushrooms from the Alsace15. [POISONOUS PL A NTS]. Die Giftpflanzen des Elsasses.Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1825. 8º. With a lithographed half-title, title-page and 37 lithographed plates. Original publisher’s printed boards. € 750

First and only edition of an anonymous work on the poisonous plants of the Alsace, eastern France, also including mushrooms. The text includes a brief preface, a table of contents, and brief description of the 37 poisonous plants, all shown on the lithographed plates.Half-title stained, some foxing and marginal (water) stain; binding stained and damaged along the spine; plates good.

Bradley III, p. 73.

Medicinal, narcotic and poisonous plants, with 180 colour-printed plates.

From the library of one of the great collectors of Dutch art Lucretia Johanna Six van Winter

16. ROQUES, Joseph. Phytographie médicale, ornée de figures coloriées de grandeur naturelle, ou l’on expose l’histoire des poisons tirés du règne végétal, et les moyens de remédier a leurs effets délétères, avec des observations sur les propriétés et les usages des plantes héroïques.Paris, Pierre-Nicolas-Firmin Didot, 1821. 2 volumes. Large 4º (29.5 × 23 cm). With 180 numbered engraved botanical plates, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf, gilt edges, by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum, one of the “major binders” (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period. € 14 500

First edition of a beautifully illustrated French account of medicinal, narcotic and poisonous plants, including mushrooms, also important as a fine example of colour printing à la poupée, with great care taken in the hand finishing. Plates 1–15 cover mushrooms and plate 175 Cannabis sativa. It is also a fine example of Didot typography and presswork.With a red morocco bookplate on the paste-down of each volume, from Hendrik Six and his wife Lucretia Johanna van Winter, dated 1823, she being one of the great collectors of Dutch art, most notably purchasing Vermeer’s The Milkmaid. Most of the tissue guards foxed, some occasional minor foxing to the plates and text and a couple plates slightly browned, still a very good copy. The binding with two minor scuff marks on the first volume, but otherwise also very good.

Nissen, BBI 1673; Stafleu & Cowan 9497; not in Garrison & Morton; for the binder: J. Storm van Leeuwen, “1725–1830 Bookbinding” on www.bibliopolis.nl.

Treating diseases with poisonous plants, with 4 engraved plates

20. STÖRCK, Anton von. Libellus, quo demonstratur, stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno hominibus, verum & ea esse remedia in multis morbis maxime salutifera.Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With 3 folding engraved plates.With: (2) STÖRCK, Anton von. Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cicutae imago aere excusa.Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With a folding engraved plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 500

Ad 1: Second(?) edition of a treatise on the medicinal properties of three plants (Datura, Hyoscyamus and Aconitum) by the Austrian physician Anton von Störck (1731–1803). Each plant is treated in a different chapter and each is shown in one of the engraved plates.Ad 2: Second edition of a description of the poisonous plant Cicuta, also by Von Störck and often found together with ad 1. From 1764 onwards Von Störck served as physician of Maria Theresa, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. He is best known for his treatment of diseases with poisons and had a great influence on Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy.Some foxing, otherwise in good condition.

Cf. Stafleu & Cowan 13158; not in Hunt; Pritzel.

Poisonous plants of Switzerland, with their antidotes21. V IC AT, Philipe-Rodolphe. Histoire des plantes vénéneuses de la Suisse, contenant leur description, leurs mauvais effets sur les hommes et sur les animaux, avec leurs antidotes; ...Yverdon, La société littéraire & typographique, 1776. 8º. With 3 folding engraved plates and 1 folding letterpress table. Modern brown/copper boards. € 450

First edition of a work on the poisonous plants of Switzerland by the Swiss botanist and physician Philippe-Rodolphe Vicat (1720–1783). It opens with a preface and a general introduction to poisons, focussing on poisons of the vegetable kingdom. The main text lists many poisonous plants that grow in Switzerland, giving their appear-ance and localities and describing the way in which they are harmful to humans and animals, whether they sting, make you sick, kill you, etc., often noting the antidotes. Following the main text are three folding engraved plates showing 93 plants, which are described on the following leaves.Last few leaves with a dark marginal stain, further with a few small spots, overall in very good condition.

Pritzel 9760; Stafleu & Cowan 16097; not in Hunt.

Catalogue of the garden of the London Pharmaceutical Society,

“an excellent practical guide to medical botany”22. W HEELER, James Lowe. Catalogus rationalis plantarum medicinalium, in horto societatis pharmaceuticae Londinensis, apud vicum Chelsea, cultarum.London, William Tyler, 1830. 8º. Contemporary brown cloth. € 1750

First and only edition of a catalogue of the garden of the London Pharmaceutical Society by the British botanist James Lowe Wheeler (1830–1870), a staunch adherent of Linnaeus. “It was by far the best catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Chelsea Garden ever published, and is, even now, an excellent practical guide to medical botany. The plants described are those admitted into the pharmacopoeiae of London, Edinburgh and Dublin (all now consolidated into one, the British Pharmacopoeia of 1867), and the properties and doses of the medicinal products of each are briefly but distinctly specified. The arrangement followed is that of Linnaeus, but a Synopsis is also given of the plants according to the system of Jussieu” (Field).Bookblock almost completely split, resulting in a large gap in front of the title-page, weak hinges and a damaged spine. Some minor foxing, but otherwise internally still good.

Pritzel 10212; Stafleu & Cowan 17400; cf. H. Field, Memoir of the botanic garden at Chelsea (1878), p. 181.

Medical botany, including many American plants, with 26 illustrations on 6 plates

23. ZOR N, Bartholomaeus. Botanologia medica. Seu dilucida et brevis manuductio ad plantarum et stirpium tam patriarum, quam exoticarum in officinis pharmaceuticis usitatarum cognitionem.Berlin, Johann Christoph Pape [printed by Ulrich Liebpert or his heirs?], 1714. 4º. With 26 botanical illustrations on 6 numbered engraved plates. Half vellum (ca. 1790?). € 1250

First edition of a medical guide to the use of plants that can improve health and are available from apothecaries, by the Berlin physician Bartholomaeus Zorn (1639–1717). It discusses the medicinal use of about 1500 plants, many from Mexico and South America, including a nine-page chapter on tobacco. It also has chapters on coffee and cannabis. The clear illustrations include tea, vanilla, cacao and other medicinal and culinary plants. The plants are arranged alphabetically by their Latin names, but there are indexes of both the Latin (including some alternative) and the German names.Foxed throughout and with occasional, mostly marginal worm holes or small stains, affecting an occasional word of the text on a few leaves, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is rubbed and tattered, with the lower part of the backstrip lost. A detailed guide to medical botany, including tobacco, chocolate, tea, coffee and cannabis.

Alden & Landis 714/158; A. von Haller, Bibl. bot. I (1771), p. 489; Pritzel 10506.

Richly illustrated herbal with plants from “the four parts of the world”

24. Z W INGER, Theodor. Theatrum botanicum, das ist: vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, worinnen allerhand Erdgewächse, Bäume, Stauden und Kräuter, welche in allen vier Theilen der Welt, sonderlich aber in Europa, hervorkommen ...Basel, Hans Jacob Bischoffs, 1744. 2º. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut botanical illus-trations in text. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum with 2 brass clasps. € 3250

Second edition of a richly illustrated herbal compiled by the Swiss physician Theodor Zwinger (the Younger, 1658–1724). The numerous woodcuts show flowers, herbs, trees, fruits, cacti, grains, roots, vegetables, water plants, mushrooms and more from “the four parts of the world”, being America, Asia, Africa and mostly Europe, also including tea, coffee, cacao and tobacco. Each plant is followed by a description covering its appearance, characteristics, medicinal and nutritive uses, etc. Zwinger’s herbal is in fact an enlarged edition of Bernard Verzascha’s herbal printed at Basel in 1678, which in its turn was based on Mattioli’s herbal, but enlarged with new illustrations and information on the medicinal attributes of many plants. The majority of the “new” illustra-tions in Zwinger’s herbal were copied from Bauhine and Tabernaemontanus.Occasionally a small spot or stain and a few leaves with marginal thumbing. Binding slightly rubbed. Overall in very good condition

Pulteney, Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England I (1790), p. 161; VD18 10387587; cf. Lindley Cat., p. 488; Nissen, BBI p. 204.

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