Deo plantante incrementum dante, consensu magnifici gratiosi senatus Asclepiadei sub praesido viri noblissimi, excellentissimi atq[ue] experimentissimi Dn. Johannis Arnoldi Friderici, : phil. ac medic. doctoris, anatomiae, chirurgiae ac bontanices P.P. celeberrimi, horti medici collegialis praefecti solertissimi, medici provincialis Saxo-Altenburgici felicissimi, ac p.t. facultatis suae decani spectatissimi, domini praeceptoris, patroni ac promotoris sui avùm venerandi, Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae

نبذة عن كتاب Deo plantante incrementum dante, consensu magnifici gratiosi senatus Asclepiadei sub praesido viri noblissimi, excellentissimi atq[ue] experimentissimi Dn. Johannis Arnoldi Friderici, : phil. ac medic. doctoris, anatomiae, chirurgiae ac bontanices P.P. celeberrimi, horti medici collegialis praefecti solertissimi, medici provincialis Saxo-Altenburgici felicissimi, ac p.t. facultatis suae decani spectatissimi, domini praeceptoris, patroni ac promotoris sui avùm venerandi, Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae

Text primarily in Latin with some words in Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopian languages Includes a discussion of the origins of aloe in Arabia and the Indian Ocean regions, the varieties, the nature of its extracts and its uses. Also discusses the cultivation of the aloe and the climate necessary for it to thrive. Includes a number of references to a variety cultivated in the Americas Signatures: A-C⁴ (A1 verso blank) D² Woodcut head piece; initial Krivatsky, P. Seventeenth cent. printed books in the National Library of Medicine Alden, J.E. European Americana John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund