Description
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Cruydt-Boeck, half-title, engraved title incorporating portraits of Dodoens and Clusius, over 1400 woodcut illustrations, final leaf present (blank except for printer's woodcut device), wide margins, occasional marginal water-staining, later blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, corners worn, foot of spine repaired, [Nissen BBI 518; Pritzel 2345], folio (409 x 260mm.), Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus, 1644.
⁂ An unusually large copy of the last and best Plantin edition of this monumental herbal.
Lot 263
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Cruydt-Boeck, Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus, 1644.
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Cruydt-Boeck, half-title, engraved title incorporating portraits of Dodoens and Clusius, over 1400 woodcut illustrations, final leaf present (blank except for printer's woodcut device), wide margins, occasional marginal water-staining, later blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, corners worn, foot of spine repaired, [Nissen BBI 518; Pritzel 2345], folio (409 x 260mm.), Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus, 1644.
⁂ An unusually large copy of the last and best Plantin edition of this monumental herbal.