Botany.- Collaert (Adriaen) Florilegium, engraved title and 23 plates, [Antwerp], P.Galle, 1590.
Botany.- Collaert (Adriaen) Florilegium, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 23 plates (numbered 2-24), most of several flowers, one of a vase of flowers and another of figures in a garden with quotation below, c.180 x 135mm., all trimmed to plate-mark and mounted on blank leaves, some light soiling and staining, later half cloth, rubbed, [Hunt 159; Nissen BBI 383], small 4to, [Antwerp], P.Galle, [c.1590].m
⁂ "This is rather a rare little book and one quite important in the history of botanical illustration, as it is among the earliest to have engraved plates of flowers". Hunt
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Botany.- Collaert (Adriaen) Florilegium, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 23 plates (numbered 2-24), most of several flowers, one of a vase of flowers and another of figures in a garden with quotation below, c.180 x 135mm., all trimmed to plate-mark and mounted on blank leaves, some light soiling and staining, later half cloth, rubbed, [Hunt 159; Nissen BBI 383], small 4to, [Antwerp], P.Galle, [c.1590].m
⁂ "This is rather a rare little book and one quite important in the history of botanical illustration, as it is among the earliest to have engraved plates of flowers". Hunt