Title
Stirpium aduersaria noua, : perfacilis vestigatio luculentaqne [sic] accessio ad priscorum, presertim dioscoridis & recentiorum, materiam medica. Quibus propediem accedet altera pars. Qua coniectaneorum de plantis appendix, de succis medicatis et metallicis sectio, antiquae et nouatae medicine lectiorum remedioru[m] thesaurus opulentissimus, de succedaneis libellus continentur
Title Variants
Alternative:
Stirpium adversaria nova
Alternative:
Stirpivm adversaria nova
By
Pena, Pierre, active 1535-1605
L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Londini. 1571, Calendis ianuarijs, excudebat plenum Thomae Purfoetij, ad Lucreti[a]e symbolum, [Jaunary 1, 1571]
Notes
Fully engraved title page with map of part of Europe and Africa on lower half.
Date of publication printed after place of publication in colophon.
"Coppie du priuilege", page [15], 3rd count, contains the French privilege granted to Pena and L'Obel, dated December 12, 1570.
Includes sections on American plants such as tobacco and prickly pear cactus.
Signatures: A-B² (B2 blank) ²A-²B⁶ C-2P⁶ (S4, 2F3 missigned R4, S3) chi1 ***1 *⁴.
Errors in paging: pages 221, 281, 284, 356, 398, 413, and 416 misnumbered 224, 284, 28e, 358, 498, 412, and 415.
The index is sometimes bound with the preliminaries.
Woodcut initials.
Includes numerous in text woodcut illustrations; printed slips with text and woodcuts are tipped in facing pages 11, 33, and 150; slips containing woodcuts are pasted to spaces left for them on pages 252 and 400.
Arents, G. Tobacco: its history, | 13
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, | 1502
Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), | 7029
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), | 19595
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, short-title list of additions, books printed 1471-1700, | page 12
European Americana, | 571/30
English short title catalogue, | S115759
Text primarily in Larin with taxonomic names of plants also in Greek, English, German, Dutch, french, Italian, and Spanish.
Subjects
Botany
,
Botany, Medical
,
Imprint 1571
,
Materia medica, Vegetable
,
Pre-Linnean works
,
Prickly pears
,
Tobacco
Language
Latin
Identifiers
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/06045521
OCLC:
55743117
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