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a work rivalling the best of the Valgrisian editions of Mattioli’s 
Commentarii in the fine woodcuts of plants for which it is remark- 
able. These woodcuts are the same in the two editions. 
Six editions of Mattioli’s works have been presented by the 
Bentham Trustees. These include the rare first Italian edition, 
published in Venice in 1544, which is the earliest work attributed 
to Mattioli. This lacks the figures of plants which are present in 
varying numbers and sizes in all the other editions at Kew, and it 
further differs in being furnished with small woodcut initials to the 
chapters, there being in some instances as many as six or eight on 
one page. e 1581 Italian edition has also been acquired, as well 
as the Latin editions ( Valgrisian) of 1560 and 1570. It is recorded 
that it was to the 1560 Latin edition that Gerard and Parkinson 
were especially indebted. 
first Bohemian edition = Mattioli’s Herbal (by Mattioli 
and Tak ab Hagek), ‘en is in Fangs in 1562, is a rare 
work and has been described as “ the finest Herbal in existence.” 
It contains the large woodcuts ieee of the best Valgrisian 
editions and is the Seheen of Mattioli’s works at Kew in which 
these large woodeuts are present. They differ markedly from 
those of Leonhard F an work referred to above in being heavily 
ed, A good copy, in contemporary weepes pigskin, is among 
the presentations by the Bentham Tru The establishment 
is also indebted to them for a wicca copy of the 1517 
Latin edition of the Ortus Sanitatis; Brunfels, Contrafayt 
Kreuterbuch, Strasburg, 1532 ; Dodoens, A New Herball, London, 
1595 ; Lobel, Plantarum seu Stirpium icones, Antwerp, 1581 (first 
edi tion) ; Petrus de Crescentiis, Opera di Agricoltura, Venice, 
1534; Pliny, Historia naturalis libri xxxvii, Venice, 1513, ante- 
dating any other edition at Kew by nearly a century. Porto, 
Ehysoruomonien, Naples, 1588 (first edition); also a copy, not 
quite homnpiots of the Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de 
( inschoten), Amsterdam, 1610; two copies of the sixth 
volume of Elwes and Henry’s Trees of Great Br “itain, and Lreland ; 
Nova Acta Academiae C.L.C. Germanicae Natueae Curiosorum, 
vols. 90 to 95, in continuation ; and the issues for the year of about 
thirty periodical or serial publications, received in exchange for 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum. 
of which have been pete: in his eae Journals, They 
ee on Swedish OR has been received, including : 
berg’s Svensk Flora, 1877; Schwedisehe Rivise in den Tehran 
1765-1766, by J. Beckmann, edit ted by Th. M. Fries, 1911; and 
: ¥ 4 ulae ad ae 3 Bagadri Salices Scandinaviae exsiccatas, Fasc. 
Sir Frank Crisp, has presented the penatentiens of 
Conifers by H. Clivton a 1909, a valuable work of which 
