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Prodromos theatri botanici

by: Bauhin, Caspar, 1560-1624

Publication date: 1620

Topics: Potatoes, Botany -- Pre-Linnean works, Botany -- America, Imprint 1620

Publisher: Francofurti ad Moenum, : Typis Pauli Iacobi, : impensis I. Treudelii

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Latin; Greek

[8], 160, [12] p. : 25 cm. (fol.)

First word of title transliterated from the Greek

Includes plants of American origin including adianthum from Brazil (the maidenhair fern), potatoes, here called solanum, and linaria americana, a flowering plant commonly called toadflax

Signatures: ):(⁴ ( ):(1 verso blank) A-X² Y²

Errata: p. [12], 3rd count

Includes index

Text printed in two parallel columns

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

"Nomina eorum, quorum opera in Prodromo adiuti fuimus": p. [8], 1st count

Purchase; 20-112