Engraved frontispiece part of J.H. Lochner by G.D. Heumann. Twenty-four of the plates were previously published in Michael Rupert Besler's Gazophylacium rerum naturalium e regno vegetabili, animali et minerali depromptarum. Lipsiae, 1642.

Includes funeral orations for Johann Lochner.

Title printed in red and black; head-piece and initial.

Signatures: )( -3)(² [a]² b-c² A-2E⁴.

BM (NH), v. 3, p. 1162

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has 2 copies; both copies have the plates, except port., numbered in ms. ink.

SCNHRB c.1 (39088003154937) is bound with: Commelin, Caspar, Flora malabarica ... Lugduni Batavorum, 1696; and Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. Tournefortius contractus, sub forma tabularum sistens Institutiones rei herbariae ... Francofurti ad Moenum, 1715. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCNHRB c.1 has contemporary full vellum binding, in later linen-covered box.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088011499969) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer.

SCNHRB c.2 has stamped on t.p.: Bayer's monogram, Afgevoend uit de Bibliotheek van N.A.M., and unidentified blind stamp.

SCNHRB c.2 half-bound in vellum and marbled paper over boards; title in ms. on spine.