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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.

General note: A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydeboeck. Includes indexes. Signatures: a-b8 c4 B-3P8 3Q². Entered 25 June 1594. All before a3, 2H1, quire 3O, 3P1, and all after 3P8; a5.6 bound after b6; several leaves mainly at the beginning damaged at edges and repaired, not affecting text; stained, particularly towards end of volume UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 6986 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1946. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 289:1). Ownership and custodial history: MS. ink inscription on 3N2v: "Hanry (?)Fault, 1630"; MS. ink signature on B1r: "Philips Lyons"; MS. ink notes by Beisly on 2nd front fly leaf; from the library of Revd. Sidney Beisly (d. 1876), Beisly bequest, 1896 UK-SuSCL