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Biblical botany, 1584

Price

€ 850,00

Popular work on plants and trees used in biblical parables and metaphors, first published in 1566 as Herbarum atque arborum.

 

Lemnius (1505-1568) was a Dutch physician and author who studied medicine under Rembert Dodoens, Konrad Gesner and Vesalius. He practised in Zierikzee (Zeeland) from 1527 onward.

Title

Levinus Lemnius.

Similitudinum ac parabolarum quae in Bibliis ex Herbis atq. Arboribus desumuntur dilucida explicatio.

Erfurt, Esias Mechler (Colophon: printed in Jena by Nikolaus Knoper), 1584.

Physical Description

8vo (15,8 x 9,7 cm). [4], 137, [9] ll. Modern half vellum, red edges. Paper evenly browned, otherwise in good condition.

References

USTC 693979; VD16 ZV 9554.

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