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Plantarum seu stirpium icones.

Title
Plantarum seu stirpium icones.
Author
L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616.
Publication
Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi regij, 1581.

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Additional Authors
  • Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.
  • Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Description
2 v. ([8], 816; 280, [36] p.) : chiefly ill.; 19 x 23 cm. (obl. 4to)
Alternative Title
Plantarvm Sev Stirpivm Icones
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Woodcuts – Belgium – 16th century
  • Woodcuts – Netherlands – 16th centur.
Note
  • L'Obel's name in publisher's dedication, p. [3-4], the only text besides the table of contents, the captions in Latin, and the index in Latin, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
  • Collection combining the ill. published in Plantin's editions of the works of R. Dodoens, C. Clusius and L'Obel, classified by the latter.
  • Vol. 2 has caption title only.
  • Signatures: v. 1: ***⁴ A-Z⁸ a-z⁸ 2A-2E⁸; v. 2: 2A-2R⁸ 2S-2X⁴ 2Y⁶.
  • Illustrations: 2176 prints : woodcut ; various sizes. Count is according to Voet; other authorities give slightly different totals, owing to the difficulty of determining whether adjoining ill. are from a single block.
  • Plantin's compass device on t.p.; ornamental initials.
  • "Sana Sancta Indorum, siue Nicotiana Gallorum": p. 584. Cut reprinted from Stirpium adversaria nova by Pierre Pena and L'Obel (London, 1571; Plantin's ed., 1576, has title: Nova stirpium adversaria). Described as the first recorded ill. of the tobacco plant in Arents, G. Tobacco, I, no. 13 (reproduced, p. 240). Small fig. at side depicts man smoking via a coiled funnel. "Tabacum siue Herba sancta minor" and "Tabacum siue sana Sancta minima": p. 585.
Indexed In (note)
  • Pritzel
  • Adams
  • Hunt botanical cat.
  • Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration
  • Bib. Belgica
  • Voet, L. Plantin Press
Contents
t. 1. Icones graminum. Icones frumentorum. Icones stirpium -- t. 2. Iconum stirpium tomus secundus. Index synonymicus stirpium (p. [280-305]).
Call Number
Arents 95-87
LCCN
06045523
OCLC
  • 6831008
  • NYPG95-B2054
Author
L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616.
Title
Plantarum seu stirpium icones.
Imprint
Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi regij, 1581.
Indexed In:
Pritzel 5549
Adams L-1383
Hunt botanical cat., I, 138
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, II, 1220
Bib. Belgica, L120
Voet, L. Plantin Press, 1580
Local Note
Binding: Contemporary dark brown calf, blind-stamped and gilt, with traces of clasps. Engraved portrait with legend "Odoardus Farnesius ... Parmae et Placentiae Dux" mounted on front pastedown.
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Added Author
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Research Call Number
Arents 95-87 Arents copy bound in 1 v.
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