farfel_n09_005_573

573
Pirages
[inserted] (P. Barber Boston) [end inserted] McMinnville, Oregon
Sept. '02
$65

(Rembertus Dodonaeus)
Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585)
Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque
nonnulanum herbariem historia. Altera editio.
Antverpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini,
1569. 8^0/Hunt. 104

See #52
#289

Ref: Nissen 514 Pritzel 2347 Voet 1098 Adams 715
Copy: British Library, Cambridge, UL Ghent, RL Brussels
N.Y. Botanical Garden. Univ. of Kansas Libraries, Missouri Botanical Garden
Chrysanth. Perunianum - p. 307, 8 V^2
Epilogus. - p. 308. 32 lines
- one of the earliest treatises on garden flowers.
1st edition 1568 - revised edition 1569.
An account of ornamental + fragrant plants.
The wood blocks were made by Pieter van dee --> c. 1540-1608
Borcht. On p. 205, one of the earliest
representations is given of a tulip. (see Krelage
p. 453 c illustration) On p. 306-7, the 1st
description + representation of the Peruvian
sunflower Heliantus annus or as called by
Doddens the Chrysanthemum Perunianum

Voct
#1098
1569

(164x100 [127]) [inserted] length of type area mm [end inserted]: A-V^8: pp. 1-309 (= for 311), [312-320]
(Errors: 113 for 123, 308-309 for 310-311)
312-316: Index (on 2 columns)
(109) woodcuts representing plants.
The larger part of the illustrations of the 1568 ed. have
been used again, in all 103 woodcuts. Have not been
retaken: the 4 illust. figuring in the 1568 ed. on pp. 301,
302, 304 + 306. The illust. of p. 167 has been
replaced by a new one. Have been added: the 5 illust.
on pp. 54, 112, 173, 185, 258. The illust. on p. 165
has been re-arranged