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[HERBALS]. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS. Historia mundi, Basel: Froben, 1525, Folio, 355 x 242 mm, later vellum, bound with index preceding text, minor marginal dampstains. FIRST FROBEN EDITION, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, woocut capitals, woodcut cadeucus device. Adams P1560. Clean copy. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- LONITZER, ADAM. Volstandiges Krauter-Buch, Ulm: Albrecht Friedrich Bartholomaei, 1770. Folio, 322 x 200 mm., contemporary mottled calf gilt, covers with gilt monogram and coronet in center, gilt spine, g.e., front hinge starting, foxing to some leaves at front and back,, title-page in red and black, numerous woodcuts (plants, mammals, birds, reptiles). Pritzel 5599. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- LE COURT, BENOIT. Hortatorum libri triginta, Lyons: Jean de Tournes 1560. Folio, 335 x 202 mm., contemporary blindstamped pigskin, lacking ties, top joint slightly split. Woodcut device on title, 10-line and smaller metalcut capitals. Hunt 82 ("One of the most comprehensive of the early separate books on trees"). Joannis Kandler, inscription; J.H. Krelage, booklabel; "Ex Bibliotheca C.F. Ph, Martii," booklabel; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. Phrarmacorum Simplicium [ed. Otto Brunfels], Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1529. Folio, 303 x 200 mm., half vellum over paper boards, worn, title-page browned, dampstains. FIRST EDITION edited by Brunfels. Woodcut title-border of animals, plants, and gods. Adams D-661; Durling 1144. Docteur Flandrin, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- COLUMELLA, LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS. Das Ackerwerck [with works of R.T.A. Palladius]. Strassburg: Wendel Rihel, 1538. Folio, 280 x 170mm., eighteenth-century half speckled calf, edges marbled, title soiled, dampstains, fore-margins of some twenty leaves at end damaged, woodcut device at end. Pritzel 1933. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. Villae...Libri xii. Frankfurt: Wechel, 1592. 4to, 208 x 155 mm., contemporary blindstamped pigskin, edges stained blue, rubbed, lacks ties. FIRST EDITION. A collection of Porta's writings on horticultural subjects including extensive sections on viniculture. Adams P1942l Vicaire 550. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. Together 6 vols.. (6)