[Medicine & Science] Bauhin, Caspar (1560-1624)
Pinax Theatri Botanici; [bound with] Prodromos Theatri Botanici. Basel: Joannes Regis, 1671.Second expanded editions of both works, by the same printer, first word in the title of each in Greek characters; large quarto, untrimmed throughout, a few leaves unopened at the top, with deckle edges throughout; the first work with an extensive index; the second work illustrated with more than 100 botanical text woodcuts; bound in half leather with speckled paper boards (worn, some tears to covering material, spine dry and flaking); some browning and foxing; Latin names occasionally added in pencil in a neat hand, two text leaves with marginal tears with the loss of a few letters; 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.PMM 121; Brunet I 707; Pritzel 398 & 509; Alden & Landis 671/6 &671/7; Nissen 104; [all references describing the first editions.]