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MUNTING, ABRAHAM. De Vera Antiquorum Herba Britannica, Ejusdemque efficacia contra Stomacaccen, seu Scelotyrben, Frisius & Batavis de Scheurbuyck (Part 2: Aloidarium, sive Aloes mucranato folio Americanae majoris, aliarumque ejusdem speciei Historia). Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681-80. 2 parts in one vol., 4to, 197 x 151 mm., contemporary vellum over pasteboards, small tear to blank corner of one plate. FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait, 32 engraved plates of plants, the 8 plates to part 2 misbound in part 1.
The Dutch botanist Abraham Munting was dirctor of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus from 1658 to 1683. In this work he attempts to identify the "Herba Britannica" of the ancients, illustrating the possible candidates. The second work describes the aloe and other recently discovered American succulents. This edition is rare and was apparently unknown to Nissen; no copies appear to have been sold at auction since the Plesch copy in 1975. Hunt 360; not in Nissen; Pritzel 6557-8.
Provenance: Robert de Belder.
The Dutch botanist Abraham Munting was dirctor of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus from 1658 to 1683. In this work he attempts to identify the "Herba Britannica" of the ancients, illustrating the possible candidates. The second work describes the aloe and other recently discovered American succulents. This edition is rare and was apparently unknown to Nissen; no copies appear to have been sold at auction since the Plesch copy in 1975. Hunt 360; not in Nissen; Pritzel 6557-8.
Provenance: Robert de Belder.