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CLUSIUS, CAROLUS [i. e., L'ÉCLUSE, CHARLES DE]. Aliquot notae in Garciae Aromatum historiam. Woodcut text illustrations. 43, [5] pages, including 2 blanks at end. 8vo, 169x109 mm, late 18th-century 1/2 sheep, lettering piece chipped, joints and spine ends rubbed, cover corners worn through; slight dog-earing in upper outer corners, underscoring and marginalia throughout this work and the others bound with it (see below). Bookplate and signature of the Rostock physician and botanist Georg Gustav Detharding (1765-1839). Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582
first edition of the first published work dealing with Sir Francis Drake's 1577-80 circumnavigation, containing descriptions of plants found during the voyage. Alden 582/52; Hunt 140; Nissen BBI 373; Voet 1010.
bound with: CLUSIUS, CAROLUS. Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia. 233 botanical text woodcuts after L'Écluse. 529, [15] pages, including imprimatur/colophon leaf and final blank. Scattered marginal foxing. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1576. first edition of a monograph on the flora of the Iberian peninsula. Hunt 125; Nissen BBI 370; Voet 1006.
and: MONARDES, NICOLAS. Simplicium medicamentorum ex Novo Orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historiae liber tertius. Latin translation by L'Écluse. 47 pages. Slight dog-earing in upper outer corners. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582. first edition in latin of the 1574 third part of the Historia medicinal by Monardes on New World medicinal plants and minerals. Alden 582/57a; Voet 1712.
and: ACOSTA, CRISTÓBAL. Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium. 2 woodcut text illustrations. 88 pages. Marginal foxing on last several leaves. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582. first edition of a Latin abridgment by L'Écluse of Acosta's 1578 treatise in Spanish on the medical botany of the East Indies. Alden 582/25; Hunt 139; Voet 1038.
