Botany.- Clusius (Carolus, pseud. of L'ecluse, Charles de)

Austriam, et vicinas quasdam provincias observatarum Historia, quatuor Libris expressa, FIRST EDITION, second issue, *4, A-Z8, a-z8, AA-BB8 (B8 blank), CC1-5 (lacking CC6-8 and DD1-8), [bound as often with] Stirpium nomenclator Pannonicus, second edition, +1-7 (lacking final blank), includes part of the additional quires containing further plants and an index, without quire Y later printed in Vienna and included in some copies [collation matches the copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, département réserve des livres rares, S-13344], woodcut printer's devices on titles, c. 361 fine mostly full-page botanical illustrations, several leaves professionally restored, including *1-3H2, M5, N2, O1, O3-4, X2, Z8, d3, some browning throughout, later vellum over boards, new endpapers and pastedowns, [Hunt 144 and 149; Nissen BBI 371], 8vo, Antwerp, Plantin, 1583 -84.

*** First edition of the work of Clusius (1526 - 1609) containing descriptions of plants growing in Austria, Hungary and surrounding countries, based on L'Ecluse's discoveries made during his journey through Austria in 1574.