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Histoire Admirable des Plantes et Herbes Esmerueillables & Miraculeuses en nature: Mesmes d'Aucunes Qui sont Vrays Zoophytes, ou Plant-Animales, Plantes & Animaux tout ensemble, pour Auoir Vie Vegetatiue Sensitiue & Animale: Avec Leurs Portraicts au Naturel, Selon les Histoires, Descriptions, Voyages, & Nauigations des Anciens & Modernes.
Paris: Chez Nicolas Bvon, 1605. References: BM STC French, 1601-1700, 1237.
Duret describes and illustrates some of the more bizarre plants that were perported to have been discovered on voyages around the world, such as a tree that hatches out ducks or birds. The author cites ancient Greek and Latin authors such as Aristotle, Statius, Pliny, and Boethius, as well as medieval sources.
Subjects: Botany--Pre-Linnean works; Plants, Folklore; Plants, Mythology.
PAT-37