A NIEWE HERBALL OR HISTORIE OF PLANTES, wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers, sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes:

At London, by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.. TITLE CONTINUED: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1578, of Dodoens Cruydeboeck. A DEFECTIVE AND REPAIRED COPY. LACKS 5 LEAVES, 4 AFFECTING MAIN TEXT AND 1 IN THE PRELIMS (see below), DARKER FACSIMILES INSERTED (see image), 11 pages only of 25 INDEX PAGES AT REAR. 4to, approximately 290 x 180 mm, 11½ x 7 inches. Title within historiated woodcut border with mythological scenes, woodcut arms of the translator Henry Lyte on verso, woodcut portrait of Dodoens holding a flower, 870 woodcuts in the text, colophon with printer's woodcut device, with loss to most of the margins and pasted to last blank page, pages: [24], 1-779, [11], slight mispagination, 356-359, and numbers 360-361 duplicated, no duplication of text, old calf covers, rebacked in lighter calf, gilt lettered title to spine and gilt date at foot between raised bands, tiny armorial bookplate on first pastedown (Matilda Ellen Slade). Old calf boards worn, scuffed and shelf wear to edges, pale staining to first free endpaper, margins of title page missing and replaced with old paper, no loss to image, slight pin hole worming on title page, slight creasing on same affecting some text and date, repairs to top and bottom corners of following page, Dedication leaf to The Most High, Noble and Renowned Princesse, Queene Elizabeth, damage with loss, only top portion remaining, a facsimile leaf inserted, pale damp staining affecting all prelims and portrait, outer margin of portrait repaired, no loss to image, 12 pages have marginal repairs none affecting text, minor worming to lower margins up to page 215, and pinhole worming to some text up to the same page, Te Deum written in old brown ink on verso last blank page, many corners slightly dusty, some minor repairs to margins at rear, small stains and occasional small ink notes to margins, occasional small pale patches of damp staining. Well used working copy only. Missing pages: *ii, 3-4, 373-374, 377-380. This copy is the variant with "me" and "Cubba". see ESTC S127799. See: Rachel Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume1, page 140, No.132; Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, Volume 1, page 242; The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical and Horticultural Collections, page 104, No.118; Eleanour S. Rohde, The Old English Herbals, pages, 93-96, 211-212; British Bee Books A Bibliography 1500-1976, page 39, No.10. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.