Abrahami Munting Profess. Groning. Dissertatio historico medica, De vera herba Britannica
Subtitle: Adjuncta est ejusdem Aloidarum historia
Publisher: Apud Johannem Wolters
Published: 1698
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Botany; Succulent plants; Aloe; Pre-Linnean works; Potatoes; Medical Botany
Other titles: Dissertatio historico medica.; De vera herba Britannica.; Aloidarium; sive Aloës mucronato folio Americanae majoris, aliarumque ejusdem speciei historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.
Work titles: De vera antiquorum herba Britannica
Notes: A reissue of the author's: De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, first printed in Amsterdam, 1681.

"Aloidarium; sive Aloës mucronato folio Americanae majoris, aliarumque ejusdem speciei historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur. Autore Abrahamo Muntingio, Groninga-Frisio. Medicinae doctore, atque in patria Academia Groningae & Omlandiae botanices professore", p. [4-5], 3-33, 3rd and 4th count, has separate dated title page dated Anno M D C LXXX, made with backward C's, and a separate half-title page on p. [2-3], 3rd count. This part contains descriptions of such American plants as aloe and potatoes.

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Errata: p. [17-19], 5th count.

Includes index.

Engraved printer's vignette on first title page; engraved printer's ornament on second title page; initials.

Includes 31 engraved plates with illustrations of plants.

"Veterum & neotericorum autorum syllabus quorum opera in hoc scripto usi suimus": p. [6-8], 1st count.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 6558.

Catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 8200.

European Americana, 698/154.

Purchase; 2017; 18-193.

Text printed primarily in Latin with some passages in Greek.