Plantarum seu stirpium historia. Cui annexum est Adversariurum volumen [...].

4 parts in 1 folio: 671 [= 675]-[1 bl.], [1-1 bl.-2]-471 [= 473]-[1 bl.], 15-[1 bl.]-24-[15]-[3] pp. (browning and dampstaining throughout, some edges frayed; 3 correction slips with woodcut ill. on p. 33 part 1 and on p. 11 and 151 part 2 (not mentioned by Voet; 2 of them also loosely inserted); a few cancels: the woodcut of p. 133 and p. 136 in part 1 and on p. 400 in part 2, a few errors in pagination but complete).

Contemp. vellum, spine with raised bands (sl. soiled, def. on spine with sm. lack of vellum).

First edition (variant B) of an extensive illustrated survey of European plants by M. de L'Obel (1538-1616), Flemish physician and botanist living in London. Ill. with more than 1.700 woodcuts engraved by Cornelius Muller, Gérard Janssen van Campen, Arnold Nicolai and Antoine vander Leest, after Pieter vander Borcht; 3 correction slips with woodcut ill. (not mentioned by Voet). Contains 4 parts: a) "Plantarum seu stirpium historia" concerning esp. the plants in the Low Countries followed by the "De succedaneis, imitatione Rondeletii" giving substition medicines and the organisation of drawyers for the plants conservation. b) "Nova stirpium adversaria", an introduction to classical medicine describing c. 1.400 species followed by the "Appendix nonnullarum stirpium" dealing with 34 rare plants which were, at that time, newly introduced in the Low Countries. c) "Formula aliquot remediorum": formula remedies after the notes of the French doctor Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), professor of L'Obel. And d) "In stirpium observationes et adversaria" with indexes in Latin, French, German, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Italian. The "Stirpium" and the "Adversaria" are preceded by a typographical title within a portico (Plantin's mark on the first). Large medallion figuring Lobel's emblem with his motto "Candore et spe" by A. vander Leest at the back of the dedicatory of the "Stirpium".
Ref. BB III:1128-1133:L-118 (extr. descr.). - Voet III:1406/1411. - BT I:1975, II:8668 and 8669. - Nissen (BBI) II:218. - Durling 2829. - Pettegree (NB) 19453. - Adams L-1382. - Machiels L-415 and 416. - USTC 401688. - Pritzel 5548.