VAN STEENIS, C.G.G.J., Introduction

Catalogus Plantarum Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi

Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company (IDC), 1966. 1966 Reprint. Paperback. 48mo. 2.25 x 4.5 in. iii, 66 pp. Very good in original lettered wrappers, crease on upper bottom right corner and isolated foxing on a few pages. Item #1696

Facsimile reprint of the 1636 original, reprinted by the IDC "in a very limited edition for its friends all around the world," cataloguing over 1,100 cultivated plants and over 280 species found wild near the Leyden Hortus Botanicus (Botanical Garden), a scientific garden in the Renaissance well-known for its intensive collection. Includes a brief introduction by C.G.G.J. Van Steenis.

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