DODOENS AND CLUSIUS | Cruydt-boeck, 1618

DODOENS, REMBERT AND CAROLUS CLUSIUS

Cruydt-boeck van Rembertus Dodonaeus, volgens sijne laetste verbeteringe: met biivoegsels achter elck capittel, uut verscheyden cruydtbeschrijvers: item in't laetste een beschrijvinge vande Indiaensche gewassen, meest getrocken wt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Leyden: Françoys van Ravelingen, 1618

Folio (343 x 220mm), half-title, letterpress title within engraved border, coloured by an early hand and highlighted in gold, c.1470 botanical woodcuts in the text, contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, bevelled edges, brass clasps, occasional toning, staining and spotting, preliminary leaf torn, hinges cracked

Second Dutch edition of Dodoens's last, most important and most extensively illustrated work, with Clusius's extensive appendix of American and East Indian plants, which adds nearly 100 woodcuts. Besides the usual European herbs and medicinal plants, the book describes and illustrates mushrooms, fruit trees and other trees, as well as tropical peppers, cacti, fruits, nuts, tobacco, papyrus, etc., and even a coral.

LITERATURE:

Krivatsy 3303 (lacking half-title); Nissen BBI 518; Pritzel 2345; Stafleu TL2 1491; Wellcome I, 1812