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[SCIENCE AND MEDICINE] - DODOENS Rembert (1517 - 1585) - [Botany – Monumental Early Modern Herbal With Multilingual Plant Indexes] - “REMBERTI DODONAEI MECHLINIENSIS MEDICI CAESAREI STIRPIUM HISTORIAE PEMPTADES SEX SIVE LIBRI XXX. Varie ab Auctore, paullo ante mortem, aucti & emendati”. Antwerpen Officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasar Moretus y Johannes Moretus. Anvers, 1616. In-4 (365 x 80 mm), 872 pp. Complete. Copy of the Latin translation of one of the most widely disseminated herbals of the modern age, written by the Flemish naturalist and physician to Emperor Rudolf II, Rembert Dodoens (1517-85). It contains indexes of the names of the plants described in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, French, German (in Gothic script), Bohemian (Czech), Dutch, and English; and an index of the virtues attributed to the plants described. Binding restored, some woodworm on the white margins of the last pages, otherwise a fresh and genuine copy. •⁠> This lot is located in and ships from the UK. No export license is required for values under £65,000; above this threshold, a UK export license will be needed. Import duties and taxes in the destination country are the buyer's responsibility.