L'Obel, Matthias de

1538-1616

Plantarum seu stirpium historia.

Cui annexum est Adversariorum volumen; reliqua sequens pagina indicabit. Antverpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1576. "De succedaneis, imitatione Rondeletii": p. 657-671. References: Pritzel 5548; Nissen C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.) 1218; Hunt 126; Johnston, S. H. Cleveland coll. 114. Woodcuts are attributed to Antoine van Leest and Gerard Janssen van Kampen. With: Nova stipium adversari. Auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia de Lobel. Antverpiae: Apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1576.

This work consists of more than two thousand woodcuts arranged and edited by l'Obel according to his own system of plant classification based on plant leaf characteristics.  This work cites various other botanists, such as Dodoens and Dioscorides, in the plant descriptions.

Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Medicine.

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