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-[60] pp. (dampstaining at the beginning and the end, browning and some spotting, half title wrinkled and underl. with tape).

Contemp. blind-st. vellum over wood, spine with 7 raised bands (def., missing parts of leather, joints splitting, head and tail def., scratches on covers).

The last and most extensive of all Plantin Press editions of the great botanical encyclopaedia by Dodoens (1517-1585). Illustrated with a nice engr. title with medallion portraits of Dodoens and Clusius and some 1430 woodcut ill. of herbs. and medicinal plants but also mushrooms, cacao, tobacco, papyrus, etc. 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. - Bibl. Medica Neerl. I:502. - Matagne (Namur) D-99.