Cruydt-boeck volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe [...] Item, in’t laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert.

Folio: [36]-1492-[34 (of 59)] pp. (dampst. in the begin. and at the end of the vol., missing 13 ff.: C6, D1-6, E1-6, browning).

Contemp. calf over wood, covers decorated with 6 large brass cabochons, spine with raised bands, one closing piece (of 2) (rebacked, corners used).

The last and most extensive of all Plantin Press editions of the great botanical encyclopaedia by Dodoens (1517-1585). Illustrated with a nice hand-coloured engr. title with medallion portraits of Dodoens and Clusius and some 1430 hand-coloured woodcut ill. of herbs and medicinal plants but also mushrooms, cacao, tobacco, papyrus, etc. Including chapters on American plantes from the 1608 ed. and on plants and drugs of the West and East Indien from the 1618 ed. Text in 2 col. Gothic type. Printer's mark at the end. With ms. table of content.
Ref. BB II:226-227:D-121. - Nissen (BBI) 518. - Krivatsy 3304. - Pritzel 2345. - Bibl. Medica Neerl. I:502. - Matagne (Namur) D-99.
Prov. Joannis Andreas Delaecker (ms. entry on flyleaf). - Jean-Pierre Felix.