A new herball, or Historie of plants : wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants, their diuers and sundrie kindes, their names, natures, operations, & vertues, and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke / first set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor, and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.

Contributor:

• Lyte, Henry, 1529?-1607, translator.
• Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609, translator.
• Bollifant, Edmund, -1602, printer.
• Thordarson Collection

Standardized Title:

• Cruydeboeck. English

Language:

• Dutch
• English
• French
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
• Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
• Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.
• Herbals--Early works to 1800.
• Materia medica, Vegetable--Early works to 1800.
• Medicine, Botanic.
• Materia medica, Vegetable.
• Phytotherapy.
• Botany.
• Botany, Medical.
• Herbals.
• Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Medical Subjects:

• Phytotherapy.

Genre:

• Early works.
• Leather bindings (Binding)
• Raised bands (Binding)
• Headbands (Binding)
• Wooden boards (Binding)
• Marbled papers (Binding)
• Painted edges (Binding)
• Painted leather bindings (Binding)
• Herbals -- 16th century.
• Chainlines (Paper)
• Catchwords (Printing)
• Marginalia (Provenance)
• Tail-pieces (Type evidence)
• Borders (Type evidence)

Physical Description:

[40], 916, [48] pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

Corrected and amended.

Other Title:

• Historie of plants
• New herbal, or, History of plants

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Edm. Bollifant, 1595.

Language Note:

Preface, letter to the reader, and appendix in Latin.

Notes:

• A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydeboeck, written in Flemish and originally published in 1554.
• Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ B-3P⁸ 3Q².
• Title within border of typographical ornaments; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
• Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

• HSP copy imperfect: t.p. wanting.
• HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadlephia.
• HSP copy from J. W. Roberts. Many persons names written on the margins of pages; Mss. note about the book pasted in; Mss. notes.
• HSP copy imperfect: first 20 page of leaves wanting.

Cited in:

• Pritzel (2nd ed.), 2345.
• Hunt, 171.
• English short title catalogue, S109768
• Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 6986
• Catalogue of sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 1172

OCLC:

8096566