Adriani Spigelii philos. ac medici Patauini Isagoges in rem herbariam libri duo
Contributors: Voorst, Adolph van, 1597-1663
Publisher: ex officina Elzeviriana.
Published: 1633
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Collection and preservation; Botany; Botanical specimens; Catalogs; Pre-Linnean works; Botanical gardens
Other titles: Isagoges in rem herbariam libri duo.; Adriani Spigelii philosophi ac medici Patauini Isagoges in rem herbariam libri duo.
Notes: Originally published Padua, 1606.

A new edition, including a catalog of the plants of the botanical garden at Leiden by Adolph Voorst. "... first book to give detailed instructions for the forming of a collection of dried plants."--Quinby.

Engraved title page.

Signatures: A-S⁸ (A1 verso, O8 verso blank). Leaf E3 signed as: "E5"

Page 215 has first digit "2" printed at an angle of 90 degrees to the left.

Cf. Quinby, J. Hunt bot. cat. 1: p. 201.

Includes index.

"Catalogus plantarum horti academici Lugduno-Batavi, quibus is instructus erat anno MDCXXXIII. Præfecto ejusdem horti D. Adolfo Vorstio, medicinæ & botanices professore. Accessit Index plantarum indigenarum, quæ propé Lugdunum in Batavis nascuntur." (p. [223]-272; index of native plants: p. 263-272)

Alden, J. and Landis, D.C. European Americana, 633/114.

Pritzel 8827, 9853.

Willems, A. Les Elzevier, 391.

The catalog of the botanical garden at Leiden includes many plants from the Americas.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum. Page number of p. 187 damaged due to heavy imprint pressure.