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$4,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
Contemporary ornately blind-stamped panelled pigskin A major Plantin-Moretus edition of Dodoens’s culminating herbal, bringing together the work of one of the leading sixteenth-century botanists in a large Latin folio illustrated with an extensive series of botanical woodcuts. Dodoens' Stirpium historiae pemptades sex is his final and most comprehensive botanical work, arranged in six pemptades, or groups of five books, making thirty books in all. It
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