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A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers and sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke / first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ... ; and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte esquyer.

Accession number
PML 150692
Creator
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Published
At London : by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Colophon reads: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves.
Imprint in two settings. In this setting, second line of imprint begins "by me". Another setting begins "by my" (ESTC S107363).
Illustrated by woodcuts.
Includes indexes in Latin and English.
Description
[24], 779, [25] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol)
Provenance
Unidentified inscription: "The G. Fisher armes" in the armorial shield of Henry Lyte (*1v); Martha Proby (1783-1864), inscription, June 4th, 1[8]52" (leaves *5r-6r); From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
16th-century English full calf binding, with gilt-tooled centerpiece.
Classification
Department