De plantis exoticis libri duo  Prosperi Alpini, philosophi medici, in gymnasium Patauino medicamentorum simplicium professoris ordinarij, & horti medici praefecti
Subtitle: opus completum, editum studio, ac opera Alpini Alpini, phylosophi & medici auctoris filij
Contributors: Alpini, Alpino, 1603?-1637; Guerigli, Giovanni, active 1591-1628
Publisher: Apud Io. Guerilium
Published: 1627
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Botany; Early works to 1800; Vegetable Materia medica; Medicinal Plants; Pre-Linnean works; Herbals
Description: First edition of a descriptive catalog of exotic plants by Italian physician and botanist Prosper Alpini (1553-1617), edited by his son and published after the author's death. A key example of pre-Linnaean botany, it is an expansion of Alpini's first botanical work, De Plantis Aegypti Liber (Venice, 1592). Alpini's descriptions and illustrations are based on specimens of the plants grown in the Botanical Garden of Padua, where he was professor of botany.
Notes: Signatures: a-b⁴ A-2U⁴.

Engraved title page included in pagination.

145 engraved illustrations of plants throughout.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

NLM 17th cent. 240

Nissen, C.  Botanische Buchillustration, 21

Gift of Tania Norris.

Binding: vellum; title blind stamped on spine; bookplate of the Horticultural Society of New York on front free endpaper.