First Edition: Folio (370 x 240 mm), engraved title page, (xxxvi), (ii), 195, (ix Index), (ii), xxv (including Wilhelm ten Rhyne's Treatise on Tea vii - xvii), (1 Errata), engraved title page (Andr. Stech delin A° 1670, and L. Visscher sculp A° 1674) and 101 engraved plates - 1 folding (no. 92, which is torn at the first fold), 8 additional engraved illustrations in the text, 1 engraved diagram and a title page vignette, full calf with red title label and gilt decoration on the spine in panels, foxing on the title pages, the plates are browned, the text is bright, overall very good copy
Hunt (R.M.M.) Catalogue of Botanical Books (1958), number 352. 'The plants were for the most part drawn by Andreas Stech and engraved by Isaac Saal, though in some cases Saal drew and engraved them after paintings by S. Cousins....First edition of a sumptuously produced book with beautiful engraved plates,' illustrating exotic plants from the Americas, the East Indies, and several species from the Cape of Good Hope.
Gunn & Du Plessis: The Flora Capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne (Brenthurst Press 1978), page 22. 'In that year (1678) he (Jacob) published, in Danzig, his magnificent Centuria with 101 copperplate engravings and dedicated to his patron, Beverningk. This work immediately established him as one of the leading European botanists.'
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Folio (370 x 240 mm)
