Herbal Dodonaeus. Plantin, 1616

Remberti Dodonaei Mechliniensis Medici Caesarei Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex sive Libri XXX. Varie ab auctore Paullo ante mortem, aucti & emendati. Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem et Ioannem Moretos, 1616.

Folio, vellum, title on spine in ms., new endpaper at the front, illustrated frontispiece with title and allegorical scene in copper engraving, (14),872,(60),(2) pp.; the last leaf with large printer's mark in woodcut. More than 1300 woodcuts in the text. Binding with restoration and heavy traces of use. Text browned. Else a good copy of this herbal, important because of a fundamental change in the classification of plants.