165 - Dodonaeus, R. Cruydt-Boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe [?] Item, in?t laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrokken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu werdeom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert. Antwerp, Plantin - Balthasar Moretus, 1644. Half-title, engraved title page, 4 leaves, 12 leaves (contents), 1492 pages, 29 leaves. With 1 full-page, illustrated copperplate engraving title page, over 1450 woodcuts of plants in the text, numerous woodcut initials and vignettes, and woodcut printer's mark. Folio. Contemporary new half-linen binding with embossed leather boards (boards slightly rubbed).

Dodonaeus, R. Cruydt-Boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe [?] Item, in?t laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrokken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu werdeom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert. Antwerp, Plantin - Balthasar Moretus, 1644. Half-title, engraved title page, 4 leaves, 12 leaves (contents), 1492 pages, 29 leaves. With 1 full-page, illustrated copperplate engraving title page, over 1450 woodcuts of plants in the text, numerous woodcut initials and vignettes, and woodcut printer's mark. Folio. Contemporary new half-linen binding with embossed leather boards (boards slightly rubbed). Nissen BBI 518. - Last edition of the well-known herbal by the Dutch botanist Rembert Dodoens (first published 1552-1554). The engraved title page depicts a Baroque garden, as well as portraits of Dodoens and the Flemish-Dutch physician and botanist Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Écluse). The work deals extensively not only with herbs, but also describes a wide variety of other plants such as fruit trees, conifers and deciduous trees, ferns, fungi, aquatic plants, and some exotic species. - The last approximately 15 pages have slightly damp edges in the white head margin.