Flora Sinensis, Fructus Floresque Humillime Porrigens. Vienna 1656. (Facsimile 2023). 23 col. pls. 75 p. in Latin & Chinese introduction of 7 p. - Hardcover, in Box.- 26 x 37,5 cm.

This book is one of the representative works of the Polish naturalist Bomig, and it was also a work published during his lifetime. It was published in Vienna in 1656. The book introduces more than 20 kinds of Chinese or Asian animals and plants in detail, such as pineapple, cinnamon, squirrel, elk, etc. It is also equipped with a number of corresponding color plates, and the pictures are very vivid. Each print is marked with a Chinese and Latin title. This book was written by missionaries who came to China. This book about Chinese animals and plants is of great significance in the cultural exchanges between China and the West. The book includes 23 hand-colored illustrations, one of which is a folded insert, and is also accompanied by a colored copy of "The Popular Chinese Stele of Nestorianism in the Qin Dynasty", with a sheepskin cover. This publication uses original simulated photocopies in original colors to "reproduce" the wonderful appearance of this rare collection in terms of content and form.

Flora Sinensis is one of the first European natural history books about China, published in Vienna in 1656.[1] Its author, Michael Boym, was a Jesuit missionary from Poland (then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).[2]

The book was the first description of an ecosystem of the Far East published in Europe. Boym underlined the medicinal properties of the Chinese plants.