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MUNTING, Abraham De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, ejusdemque efficacia contra Stomacaccen, seu Scelotytben, frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica. Amsterdam H. Sweerts 1681 4to: [28]-231 pp.; 32 pl. (very minor spotting). Contemp. vellum, flat spine. Nice copy. Bound with, same state: Id. - Aloidarium, sive Aloës mucronato folio Americanae majoris, aliarumque ejusdam speciei historia. In qua floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae [...]. S.l., s.n., 1680, 33-[19] pp. (very minor spotting). First editions of these works, mostly bound together, by A. Munting (1626-1683), botanist and professor at the University of Groningen. In the first work Munting tries to identify the "Herba Britannica". Engr. ill.: title, portrait of the dedicatee Henricus Casimirus and 32 full-page plates depicting species of British plants. The second work describes the Aloe, i.a. American aloes. Prov. Libr. stamp.
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MUNTING, Abraham De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, ejusdemque efficacia contra Stomacaccen, seu Scelotytben, frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica. Amsterdam H. Sweerts 1681 4to: [28]-231 pp.; 32 pl. (very minor spotting). Contemp. vellum, flat spine. Nice copy. Bound with, same state: Id. - Aloidarium, sive Aloës mucronato folio Americanae majoris, aliarumque ejusdam speciei historia. In qua floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae [...]. S.l., s.n., 1680, 33-[19] pp. (very minor spotting). First editions of these works, mostly bound together, by A. Munting (1626-1683), botanist and professor at the University of Groningen. In the first work Munting tries to identify the "Herba Britannica". Engr. ill.: title, portrait of the dedicatee Henricus Casimirus and 32 full-page plates depicting species of British plants. The second work describes the Aloe, i.a. American aloes. Prov. Libr. stamp.
