Jacobi Breynii Gedanensis Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarium plantarum centuria prima
Subtitle: cum figuris æneis summo studio elaboratis
Publisher: Typis, sumptibus & in aedibus autoris, imprimebat David Fridericus Rhetius
Published: 1678
Place of publication: Gedani
Language: lat
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Tea; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarium plantarum centuria prima
Notes: "Wilhelmi ten Rhyne ... Excerpta ex observationibus suis Japonicis physicis &c. de frutici thee. Cui accedit fasciculus rariorum plantarum ab eodem D.D. ten Rhyne in Promontoris Bonæ Spei & Saldanha Sinu ...": pt. 1, p. [vii]-xxv (fourth group).

Engr. title vignette; author's signature added in ink.

Added engr. illustrated t.-p. (dated 1677), by A. Stech, designer, and L. Visscher, engraver; illus. of pt. 1 and plates of pt. 2 designed by A. Stech and S. Cosyn, engraved by I. Saal and J. Bensheimer.

Appendix at end of pt. 1 includes (p. vii-xvii) Willem ten Rhijne's "Excerpta ex observationibus suis japonicis physicis &c. de frutice thee."

Part 2 contains 101 numbered plates with separate signatures and special t.-p.: ... Icones exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum in centuria prima descriptarum.

First issue, with plates as pt. 2; second issue has these plates distributed throughout the text, with head-lines changed, signatures omitted, and some corrections made on the plates according to the errata list of the first issue.

Pritzel. Thesaurus lit. botanicae 1136.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 232.

Hunt botanical cat., 352.