Prodromos theatri botanici
By: Caspari Bauhini Basileens archiatri et Profess. Ordin. In quo plantæ supra sexcentae ab ipso primum descriptae cum plurimis figuris proponuntur
Contributors: Soubry, J. A. I.
Publisher: Typis Pauli Iacobi; impensis I. Treudelii
Published: 1620
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Potatoes; Botany
Notes: First word of title transliterated from the Greek.

Includes plants of American origin including adianthum from Brazil (the maidenhair fern), potatoes, here called solanum, and linaria americana, a flowering plant commonly called toadflax.

Signatures: ):(⁴ ( ):(1 verso blank) A-X² Y²

Errata: p. [12], 3rd count.

Includes index.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

"Nomina eorum, quorum opera in Prodromo adiuti fuimus": p. [8], 1st count.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 104.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 507.

European Americana, 620/12.

Purchase; 2017; 20-112.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Divestiture Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown LIbrary copy: J.A.I. Soubry tresorier de France: armorial bookplate on front pastedown.