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[HERBALS AND HORTICULTURE]. CRESCENZI, PIETRO DE. Neu Feldt und Ackerbaw. Strassburg: Zetzner, 1602 [Bound with:] PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS. Bucher und Schrifften von Natur. Frankfurt am Main; Johann Saur, 1600. 2 works in 1 vol., folio, 320 x 198 mm. contemporary vellum, front cover with stamped initials "I.F.F.V.A." and date 1617, rubbed, joints slightly split, foxing and browning to first work, very slight foxing in second work. Both title-pages in red and black, numerous woodcuts in the text, those in the first work by Christoph Mauer and Tobias Stimmer,; the second work with 23 fine large woodcuts by Jost Amman and numerous smaller one by Virgil Solis. Crescenzi: Nissen ZBI 988b; Pliny: Nissen ZBI 3190. -- DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. Materia medica. Basel: Froben, 1557. Folio, 332 x 224 mm., contemporary speckled calf, extremities rubbed, top of spine chipped, light dampstains to upper margins, endpapers foxed. Woodcut device on titlepage, one 9-line woodcut initial capital, spaces for capitals with guide letters. FIRST EDITION with the Cornarius commentary. Adams D666 -- PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS. Historia naturale. Venice: Melchior Sessa and Pietro de Ravani, 1516. Folio, 302 x 210 mm., recent tan morocco, covers ruled in blind, gilt spine, wormtracks to title and a few early leaves, to lower gutter margins of many leaves and to last few leaves, these patched but with loss of a few letters text on some pages. Fifth edition of this translation by Christophoro Landino. Titlepage in red and black with cat-and-mouse woodcut device, 37 column-width woodcuts first used in 1513. Essling 5; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 388; Sander 5761. -- COLONNA, FABIO. [Greek:] Phytobasanos. Milan: I.P. Aere & P.C. Viviani, 1744. 4to, 260 x 190 mm., contemporary mottled calf gilt, gilt spine, edges stained red, upper joint cracked. Second edition. Engraved circular vignette of a cat on titlepage, engraved initials and head-pieces, 38 fine full-page engraved plates of plants, each with name in Greek and Latin. Pritzel 1822. Bookseller's label of Jacque Lechevalier; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. -- THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS. Opera omnia [Greek]. Basel: J. Oporinus, 1541. Folio, 270 x 186 mm., later half vellum and paper boards, first quire bound incorrectly, minor spotting. EDITIO PRINCEPS, edited by Johann Camerarius. Adams A570. Royal Library, Munich, stamp on verso of title; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- BERTOLONI, ANTONIO. Amoenitates Italicae sistentes opuscula ad rem herbarium et zoologiam Italiae Spectantia. Bologna: de Nobilis, 1819. Folio, 275 x 205 mm., vellum-backed boards, uncut, foxing. Six engraved plates. Stafleu & Cowan 486. -- BAUHIN, CASPAR. Prodromos theatri botanici. Frankfurt: Treudel, 1620. 138 woodcuts in the text Nissen 104; Stafleu & Cowan 366 [Bound with:] CLUSIUS, CAROLUS. Curae posteriores...aut descriptarum stirpium, Leiden: In Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii 1611. 2 parts. FIRST EDITION. 44 woodcuts in the text. Hunt 191; Nissen 368 [Bound with:] VESLING, JOHANN. De Plantis Aegyptiis. Pavia: P. Frambotti, 1638. FIRST EDITION. 23 large woodcuts in the text. Hunt 231l Nissen 2057. 3 works in 1 vol., 4to, 233 x 174 mm., contemporary vellum, light browning. Ed. Bonnet, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. Together 10 works in 7 vols. (7)