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...[ointments], having the power of preserving a corpse. In the same place.
PIETRO de' Crescenzi of Bologna, on the parts of agriculture, and the nature and utility of plants and animals, in 12 books, written two hundred years ago. Basel, 1548, with few figures. 1538. 1474
PIETER Paaw, president of the public garden of the Academy of Leiden: the ground plan, description, use, and the names of the plants which it contains. Leiden, 1603, in 8vo.
PIERRE Pena, see Adversaria.
FILIPPO Pigafetta wrote the history of the Kingdom of Congo, which was published with the histories of the Indies.
POMPEO Sprecchis, Antabsinthium Clavenae, with a figure of umbelliferous Wormwood. Venice, 1611, 4to.
PROSPERO ALPINI, sixth prefect of the Paduan garden, wrote a dialogue on Balsam, with its figure added. Venice, 1591, 4to. 1592
The same author’s book on the Plants of Egypt, with 46 figures, and with the Medicine of the Egyptians. Venice, 1592, 4to.
The same author on Rhaponticum, with its figure. Padua, 1612, 4to.
Q. APOLLINARIS, a book of experiments often published in German with 141 figures. Strasbourg, 1589, 8vo.
REMBERT DODOENS’S History of Plants, written in Dutch, and rendered into French by Clusius (see Clusius), with icons which appeared separately in two volumes in octavo. Antwerp, 1553 and 1559. Icons numbering 840, with annotations.
The same author’s History of Grains, in the year 1552, in Latin, printed and reprinted at Antwerp in 8vo. 1560
The same author’s History of Flowers and Purgatives, published
separately with new figures, in 8vo. The same works joined together and divided into thirty books. Antwerp, in the year 1583, in folio, with 1305 figures. This history was reprinted again in Dutch, with the lengthy annotations of a certain person, and with 36 new figures added, in the year 1608. Similarly in Latin, corrected by the author with few changes, and with the figures contained in the Dutch edition added with descriptions, it appeared in the year 1616.
SIMON of Genoa’s Clavis Sanationis, explaining more obscure terms in alphabetical order. Venice, 1486, folio; reprinted with Silvaticus.
TARQUINIUS Ocyorus of Dortmund, on twenty roots proven against the plague, with figures of the same plants, in German, with the booklet of Q. Apollinaris.
THEOPHRASTUS the Greek, On the History and Causes of Plants: the Greek edition, Venice, 1552, 8vo; Basel, 1541, 4to; and Gaza’s version, Lyon, 1552, 8vo, with the correction of Joannes Jordanus.
TOBIAS Roels, Physician of Middelburg: epistles to Clusius, published with the history of Clusius.
THOMAS Hariot described the island of Virginia; Clusius rendered it into Latin; it is the first part of the West Indies.
VALERIUS Cordus’S Annotations on Dioscorides.
The same author’s 4 books on the History of Plants, with 272 figures from Tragus and some new ones added by Gesner.
The same author’s Sylva of Observations, all of which were published together, under the care of Gesner, at Strasbourg, 1561, in folio.
The same author’s Dispensatory, often reprinted.