MUNTING, Abraham.
De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681.
With: (2) IDEM. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680.2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Modern half green morocco. [28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp.
€ 1,750
Rare first edition of a scholarly work on British herbs, including those used to prevent or treat scurvy, along with a treatise on various species of the American aloë. Although the Aloidarium title-page is dated 1680, Sweerts must have planned from the beginning to include it in the more extensive Herba and completed it after most of the Herba was finished, since its imprint gives nothing but the year and the index to both works begins on the verso of the last page of text in the Aloidarium. Abraham Munting (1626-1683), was born in Groningen, in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. He was a physician, and an internationally renowned botanist, an academic professor and director of the Hortus Botanicus at Groningen. The work is beautifully illustrated with flowering plants, sometimes in pots. Also interesting as a botanical Americanum.
Foot margin of frontispiece repaired minor water stains, plates slightly browned, but still in good condition. Bibl. Med. Neerl. 364 & 506; Biodiversity Heritage Library 97404; Hunt Library 360; Pritzel 6557-6558; STCN 097841048; not in Nissen; Sabin.
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