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. (lower margin half title underl., title doubled, some edges and corners (at the end) underl., usual browning and spotting, in all an attractive copy).

Contemp. blind-st. calf with brass cabochons, cornerpieces, clasps and catches (rebacked with felt and fixed with a brass slat, sides and corners restored).

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 nicely 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. Guilielmus Steijnen, 1725, widow doctor Steijnen, burgomaster of Staden and canon of Antwerp, 1735 (ms. entries on pastdown and paper strip on half title).