Graece? et Latine?. In quibus Textum Graecum variis Lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis : Latinam Gazae versionem nova interpretatione ad margines : totum Opus absolutissimis cum Notis tum Commentariis: item rariorum Plantarum iconibus illustravit Ioannes Bodaeus a? Stapel, Medicus Amstelodamensis. Accesserunt Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri, in eosdem Libros Animadversiones: et Roberti Constantini Annotationes. Cum Indice locupletissimo.
Text in Greek with Latin translation by Theodorus Gazes, commentaries by Julius Ceasar Scaliger and Robert Constantine. Edited by Joannes Boadeus à Stapel.
(xx), 1187 (with various numbering errors), (i blank), 87 Index, (i blank) pages, engraved title page, more than 600 wood engraved illustrations of plants in the text, recent half vellum with parchment sides, pages 226 - 320 stained and light water staining in the gutter of many pages, a tear in leaf 485/6 repaired with cellotape which has now dried and been removed but has left an unsightly stain, light browning but generally the contents are good.
Hunt 240.
Kerkham, South African Botanical Literature, 654, 'Includes some early drawings of Cape plants made in 1642 by Justus Hernius, such as Orbea variegata, Haemanthus rotundifolius, Kniphofia uvaria and Cotyledon orbiculata.
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