L'ESCLUSE, CHARLES DE Curae posteriores; seu, plurimarum non ante cognitarum, aut descriptarum stirpium, peregrinorumque aliquot

animalium novae descriptiones... accessit seorsim Everardi Vorstii... de eiusdem Caroli Clusii vita & obitu oratio, aliorumque epicedia. 34 text woodcuts. [8], 134, [2], 39 pages. 4to, old manuscript vellum; occasional browning, old ownership inscription on title. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt bookplate. [Leiden]: Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611 FIRST EDITION of a posthumous collection of studies and notes, chiefly on botanical subjects; the account on pages 123-31 of the 1597-1606 voyages by Steven van der Hagen to the coasts of Guinea, Java, and the Moluccas was excerpted by L'Escluse from manuscripts now lost. Hunt 191.