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. (some usual browning).

Contemp. blind-st. vellum, spine with 6 raised bands (corners sl. rubbed and bumped).

The last and most extensive of all Plantin Press editions of the great botanical encyclopaedia by Rembert 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.
Ref. BB II:226-227:D-121. - Nissen (BBI) 518. - Krivatsy 3304. - Bibl. Medica Neerl. I:502. - Matagne (Namur) D-99.
Prov. "J.J. Verlinden, 1808, apothekar" (large ms. entry on flyleaf and stamp).