‎LOBELIUS ( de LOBEL - de L'OBEL ) Mathias :‎
‎Nova Stirpium adversaria, perfacilis vestigatio, lvcvlentaqve accessio ad priscorum, praesertim Dioscorides, & recentio-rum, Materiam Medicam. Auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia De Lobel Medicis. Quibus accessit Appendix cum Indice variarum linguarum locupletissimo. Eodem M. De Lobel avctore. Additis G. Rondelletii aliquot Remediorum formulis...‎

‎" Antverpiæ (Antwerpen), Apud Christophorum Plantinum, Architypographum Regium, 1576, in-folio, 29 x 19 cm, three parts in one volume ; (I) title within woodcut-compartment + (verso)(bl) + (2)nn pp + 471 pp + (1)pp(bl) ; (II) Formulæ aliquot remediorum Guillelmi Rondelletii, libro de internis remedis omissæ, heading; 15 pp + (1)(bl) ; (III) In Stirpium Observationes et Adversaria Matthiæ De Lobel , index copiosissimus. 24 pp + (16)nn pp, all pp. on three columns, except last three. Collation identical to Voet - Plantin item 1578 , Variant B (Part II , III , IV), our index bound in as last part. With 276 woodcut illustrations of plants (of which 5 on loose sheets pasted onto the text.). Bound in contemporary full calf, sprinkled edges, raised gilt back with a small coat of arms (crowned lion) and thrice repeated the initials IOIO (French 16th-17th century binding). Small paper restoration at upper margin of the title leaf (no loss of text) , some old waterstains at inner margin of index and appendix leaves, headcaps and upper joint expertly restored, still a good/fine copy. Matthias De Lobel (Rijsel - Lille 1538 - Highgate-London 1616) studied medecine and botany at Montpellier university with Rondelet. There he befriended Petrus Pena. In 1569 he was in England, where he published the first edition of ''Nova Stirpium Adversaria'' in 1571. It was printed by Thomas Purfoot and Christopher Plantin bought 800 copies (received 556) from him for the sum of 1200 Florins. This explains the place and year of the dedicatio ; ''London 1570''. Plantin rearranged the Purfoot edition somewhat and added an appendix (presented as a continuation of the English edition), an index and the Formulæae Rondelletti. The work is complete as such although sometimes it is offered together with Lobelius' ''Plantarvm seu Stirpium Historia'', compiled and published 5 years later (1576). In his exhaustive study on De Lobel and the complicated publication history of his Stirpium (see A. Louis; Mathieu de Lobel, épisode de l'histoire botanique) Louis clearly demonstrates that the editions of 1571 (editio princeps), 1576 (Plantin edition, our copy) and a 1605 edition are all the same and derive from the copies printed in 1571 in London by Purfoot (see pp.215)."‎

Reference : 30777

‎‎