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De plantis a divis sanctis've nomen habentibvs capvt ex magno volumine de consensu dissensu Authorum circa stirpes, desumptum. Additae sunt Conradi Gesneri medici clariss. Epistolae hactentus non editae a Casparo Bavhino.

General note: Woodcut capitals and tailpiece, woodcut device on L2v UK-SuSCL Gesner has its own t.p. on F6r: "Conradi Gesneri philosophi et medici CL epistolae a' Casparo Bavhino... nvnc primvm editae Ioachimvm Camerarium filium, illvstriss. Reipub. Norinberg. Philosophum medicum praestantissimum", and occupies F7,F8, G-K8, L2 ; UK-SuSCL Ink ck4 at foot of t.p.; early 20thC (?) pencil notes on flyleaf "This is not a first edition... but a collection made... many years prior to its publication" initialled HJR UK-SuSCL Ownership and custodial history: Bookplate with entwined letters B O; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust gift bookplate; Beisly bequest 1896 UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Full contemporary vellum, leather title label on spine UK-SuSCL