Remberti Dodonæi Mechliniensis medici Cæsarei Stirpium historiæ pemptades sex . sive libri xxx. Variè ab auctore, paullò ante mortem, aucti & emendati.
Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585)
Category
Books
Date
1616
Materials
Place of origin
Belgium
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3042537
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 872, [68] p. : ill. ; fol. Part of index (sig. hh) misbound between p. 780 and 781 (sigs. 2T and 2V). Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Thomas Meriton" and in Greek "peutas; peutas quinquenniu[m]" [perhaps Thomas Meriton, dramatist (fl. 1658), see DNB]; and (partly erased): "walter walstoe[?] his booke prtm. ... 5l-0-0". Manuscript inscription on final blank leaf: "Everard Fawkner me tenet" [perhaps Sir Ev. Fawkener (1684-1758), see DNB]. With occasional manuscript marginal annotations. Binding: seventeenth-century[?] reversed calf; double blind fillet border and panel, with blind cornerpiece stamps; single gilt fillet on board edges. Rebacked in reversed calf. Gilt title and place/date on red morocco labels on spine. Slight water damage to upper, outer, corner.
Makers and roles
Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585)