Shelfmark
Gb.1.04
Author
Uniform title
[Stirpium historiae]
Title
Remberti Dodonæi Mechliniensis medici Cæsarei Stirpium historiæ pemptades sex siue libri XXX. / Variè ab auctore, paullò ante mortem, aucti & emendati.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana apud Balthasarem et Ioannem Moretos., M.DC.XVI. [1616]
Physical description
[16], 872, [68] p. : ill. ; 36 cm (Fo.).
Note
Printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf.
Note
With unsigned engraved title page showing different flowers together with Adam, Solomon, Theophrastus and Dioscorides.
Note
Woodcut initials, tail-pieces, illustrations; printed marginalia.
Note
Woodcut printer's emblem on verso of final leaf.
Note
Signatures on recto of penultimate leaf.
Citation/references note
Botany in the Low Countries (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1993), 38
Citation/references note
Pritzel 2350
Citation/references note
Nissen 517
Citation/references note
Hunt 201
Provenance
Note on card catalogue record indicating that the volume was in Eton College Library in the 17th century. Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso. No further provenance evidence as the endpapers have been renewed. Eton College Library bookplate by Reynolds Stone.
Binding
Early 17th century mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border; gold tooled single fillet on board edges; holes for chain plate on front board; rebacked in 20th century in light brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fille on spine; six raised bands; yellow stained and red sprinkled edges; fresh endpapers.
Subject
Botany Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Moretus, Jan, 1543 - 1610 printer.
Added entry--name
Moretus, Balthasar, 1615 - 1674 printer.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
Identifier
B46791