Botany.- Boerhaave (Hermann) Index alter Plantarum quae in Hortio Academico Lugduno-Batavo, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, second issue, engraved plan of Leiden garden and 39 plates, some folding, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, the second with marginal water-staining, without blank *4 as usual, occasional ink marginalia, contemporary vellum, rebacked, later paper label to spine, one corner worn, [Nissen BBI 186; Stafleu & Cowan 593], 4to, Leiden, Jansson Vander Aa, 1727.

⁂ A very good copy of Boerhaave's great catalogue of plants in the Leiden botanic gardens in which some 5,846 species are described. The work is the sequel to the 1710 catalogue which contained descriptions of c.3,700 plants. The work is prefaced by a brief history of the gardens, of which Boerhaave became curator in 1709. Between his appointment and the appearance of the present work, he had added some 2,000 new species of plants, many being South African and North American. The first issue of 1720 differs only in imprint and date.