1568 PLANTS & TREES in BIBLE by Levinus Lemnius antique

Lemnius, Levinus.
Similitudinum ac Parabolarum quae in Biblis ex Herbis atque Aboribus ...
Popular work on plants and trees used in biblical parables and metaphors, first published in 1566 as "Herbarum atque arborum."
Antwerp: Gulielmus Simon, 1568
engraved title device, portrait of author
420 pages
Size 4 1/4 by 7"
Blind-ruled and decorated panelled calf, decorated panelled spine,
Very good condition, minor foxing , old ownership on title, old armorial bookplate and later amorial label;
bound after is an edition (?Louvain, 1574) of Sacrarum Heroidum .
Text in Latin

Levinus Lemnius (20 May 1505 in Zierikzee – 1 July 1568 in Zierikzee) was a Dutch physician and author.
Lemnius studied medicine at the University of Leuven under Rembert Dodoens and Konrad Gesner; and under Vesalius at Padua.
After his wife's death, he became a priest.

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