DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA with: ALOIDARIUM, SIVE ALOES MUCRANATO FOLIO AMERICANAE MAJORIS

Munting (Abraham) DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA EJUSDEMQUE EFFICACIA CONTRA STOMACACCEN, SUR SCELOTYRBEN, FRISIIS & BATAVIS DE SCHEURBUYCK, DISSERTATIO HISTORICO-MEDICA, Two parts in one:

I. (xxviii), 231, (i blank); 33, (xviii Index), (iii Errata), pages, engraved title page, engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates.

II. ALOIDARIUM, SIVE ALOES MUCRANATO FOLIO AMERICANAE MAJORIS, ALIARUMQUE EJUSDEM SPECIEI HISTORIA, 8 engraved plates. Full contemporary calf with new spine, neat repair to the top corner of the half title page not affecting the printed area, otherwise the contents are crisp and bright, a very good copy.

Hunt Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume I, number 360. 'Abraham Munting was a learned Dutch botanist, born in Groningen, and director of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus, from 1658 - 1683. In this work he attempts to identify the "Herba Britannica" of the ancients, illustrating the possible candidates. The second work describes the aloe and other recently discovered American succulents.'