Folio (430 x 258 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black each with engraved vignettes, 30 copper engraved plates (one folding), parallel text in Latin and Dutch. (Toned, some occasional spotting, offsetting and wormholing, some marginal chipping.) Disbound from mostly perished limp wrappers, uncut (some soiling). Provenance: Biblioteca Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale? (stamp); Bibliotheca Webbiana (stamp).

FIRST EDITION. "This index is the first place in literature in which an author other than Linnaeus or his pupils uses Linneaen binomials" and is combined with new binary names by "B" (Johannes Burman) following the Latin name of the plant (Stafleu & Cowan). Originally published as a separate book, though it is generally combined with the previous 6 volumes of Rumpf's Herbarii. Nissen BBI 1701; Pritzel 7909; Stafleu & Cowan, 9785.