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Theatrvm florae : in qvo ex toto orbe selecti mirabiles venustoires ac præcipui flores tanquam ab ipsus deæ sinu proseruntur.

Accession number
PML 53071
Creator
Rabel, Daniel, approximately 1578-1637.
Published
Lutetiæ Parisiorum : apud Petrvm Firens, An. D. M. DC.XXXIII [1633]
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.
Notes
Author's name from Hunt 212.
Engraved t.p.
Engraved title page, frontispiece, and 69 engravings of flowers after drawings by Rabel.
Date on title page altered from 1622 (M DC XXII) and (M DC XXVII) 1627 editions.
Plants identified with Latin names.
Description
[2], 69 leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 37 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Copy not colored.
Provenance
John, earl of Moira, and Hellen Rawdon, inscription: "Hellen Rawdon my book" (title page; similar inscription in 1680 Book of Common Prayer now Trinity College, Dublin (33.b.64)) and John Rawdon, signature (plate 1); unidentified booklabel: "Wh" on octagonal label (front pastedown); Mrs. Morgan's collection.
Binding
20th-century 1/2 red morocco with brown cloth sides, by Charlotte Ullman, 1966.
Classification
Department