Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia /

Includes indexes.Errata, p. [16], first sequence of pagination.Signatures: pi² a-b² [superscript chi]b⁴ c⁴ D² A-2P⁶ 2Q⁶(±2Q1, 2) 2P-4K⁶ 4L², ²A-M⁴.Plates comprise engraved title and 4 engraved single-page ill. In-text woodcut ill. throughout main text. Woodcut initials.Following main text is Hernández's Historiae animalium et mineralium Nouae Hispaniae liber unicus, separately paged 1-90 (caption title).First published Rome : Jac. Mascardi, 1628/1630. Second ed. published by Vitale Mascardi in 1648/1649 with engraved title by Johann Friedrich Greuter. Present copy may be from Deversini & Masotti's reissue of 450 copies of the 1628/30 ed., with date on Greuter's title altered to 1651; it retains imprimatur dated 1628 (p. [902]) in addition to that dated 1651 (recto of 3rd leaf). Some reissue copies have letterpress title: Nova plantarum animalium et mineralium Mexicanorum historia / a Francisco Hernandez ... primum compilata, dein a Nardo Antonio Reccho in volumen digesta ; a Io. Terentio, Io. Fabro, et Fabio Columna ... notis & additionibus ... illustrata ; cui demum accessere, aliquot ex principis Federici Caesii frontispiciis Theatri naturalis Phytosophicae tabulae ... For all see Nissen.Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration,Mode of access: Internet.Bound in 1 vol. in limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Title written at head of spine: HIST. PLANT[AS] / YNDIAS. Ownership inscription at foot of t.p. (written over an earlier inscription): ...Joseph de la Mota. At foot of third leaf recto is ownership inscription of Vincencio José de Roa, pharmacist of Mexico City. Marginal annotations.Last leaf of Getty copy mostly wanting