4to (238 x 132 mm). 68 full-page etchings in text. (Some occasional pale spotting and browning.) Modern brown morocco. Provenance: Early inscription dated 1670 on title; occasional marginalia and titling of some plates; Edward Sandford Burgess (bookplate); Ashton Allis (bookplate); sold Swann Galleries, 28 October 1971, lot 111; Dr. Anita Peek Gilger (her sale, Christie's New York, 14 October 2003, Lot 34).

FRIST EDITION OF THE FIRST CANADIAN FLORA, describing and illustrating approximately thirty Northeast American species for the first time.  French physician Cornut never visited North America, but received plant specimens from the Robins family,  who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the Morin family, who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Cornut also includes five South African bulb plants, again illustrated here for the first time.  Cleveland Collections 190; Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406.