A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal Printed by Christopher plantin. With a short essay by Carey S. Bliss.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1977.
Folio, 28 pp. Illustrated, original cloth, dust-jacket, bookplate and owner's signature on front pastedown. A fine copy in the original plain wrapper, very lightly edgeworn and titled in pencil on the spine panel. Prospectus laid in.
§ Limited to 385 copies, printed by Grant Dahlstrom. A fine copy with an especially good leaf with six large botanical woodcuts depicting Chondrilla (Skeletonweed), and five varities of Hieracium (Hawkweed), long used for diseases of the lungs. Item #122407
Price: $350.00
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