IMPORTANT: Accept cookies to place a bid!
Our website requires cookies for the bidding form to work. Without cookies, your cart will remain empty, and you won’t be able to place a bid. Click ‘Accept’ to enable bidding and ensure the website functions optimally. We ask for your consent to use cookies.

I agree to the use of cookies. I don't agree to the use of cookies..
en
Your cart
back to overview

CLUSIUS, Carolus

Rariorum Plantarum Historia
Antverpia
Ex officina Plantiniana
1601
€1.400 - €2.000

Folio, [14], 364, cccxlviii, [12] pp. Engraved title, engr. portrait of Clusius missing, more than 1110 woodcut illustrations. First 8 leaves with stains en some waterst., small part cut out of the margin of the title-page. Full calf binding (rebacked)

Nissen BBI 372.
Provenance:
Dr F.A. Sondervorst and stamps on title page. First edition collecting description of rare plants observed by Clusius in various countries (Spain, Italy, Hungary), along with additions describing new plants. Also included are "Commentariolum de Fungis", the first important treatise on fungi, and part of Clusius' botanical correspondence

Botany