Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V
Subtitle: quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerum Persicarum & ulterioris Asiae : multâ attentione in peregrinationibus per universum orientem collectae
By: ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero, D.
Contributors: Meyer, Heinrich Wilhelm, 1657-1722, printer; Marot, Daniel, 1661-1752, ill; Gole, Jacob, 1660?-1737? engraver; Brandshagen, F. W., engraver; Bement, Myron, former owner; Smith, Katharine Dennis, former owner
Publisher: Typis & impensis Henrici Wilhelmi Meyeri, aulae Lippiacae typographi
Published: 1712
Place of publication: Lemgoviae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 912
Subjects: Botany; Early works to 1800; Achaemenian inscriptions; Description and travel; Cuneiform inscriptions; Pre-Linnean works; Date palm
Notes: Title printed in red and black.

Added engraved half title signed: D. Marot inv., T. Gole sculp.; many of the engraved plates are signed: F.W. Brandshagen.

Engraved title vignette; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

"Inscriptio Persepolitana"--Plate facing p. 332.

"Tabula hydrographica Sinus Persici"--Plate facing p. 764.

Signatures: pi² [a]² b⁴ c² A-6C⁴.

Errata: p. [30]-[32], last count.

Includes index.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, no. 1018

Pritzel (2nd ed.), no. 4564

Hunt botanical cat., no. 427

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088016456063) bound in red library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088016456105) trimmed, affecting imprint.

SCNHRB c. 2 has ink bibliographical note on front paste-down.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on front paste-down: Myron Bement and Katharine Dennis Smith.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in blue library buckram, title in gilt within black leather spine label; measures 21 cm.
Table of contents: title: I. Relationes de aulae persicae statu hodierno; title: II. Relationes & observationes historico-physicas de rebus variis; title: III. Observationes physico-medicas curiosas; title: IV. Relationes botanico-historicas de Palma dactylifera, in Perside crescente; title: V. Plantarum japonicarum, quas regnum peragranti solum natale conspiciendas objecit, nomina & characteres sinicos; intermixtis, pro specimine, quarundam plenis descriptionibus, unà cum iconibus.