[Rarebooks] Rembert Dodoens: The History of Plantes (Part IV). 1578

[Ezra Tishman]

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Ezra from Aardvark offers this singular section (4th Part) of Rembert (Van Joenckema) Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist 
(called “The Father of Botany”).



Dodonaeus, Rembertus. (trans. Henry Lyte.). DODOENS. THE HISTORIE OF PLANTES, TREATING OF THE
SUNDRIE KINDES, FASHIONS, NAMES, VERTUES, AND OPERATIONS, OF COZNE, OF GRAPNE, PULSE,
THISTELLES, AND SUCHELYKE. FROM A NIEWE HERBALL, OR HISTORIE OF PLANTES (THE FOURTH
PART ONLY). Antwerp: Henry Loe, 1578. First English. INCOMPLETE

First English edition, published in Antwerp in
1578. Removed. FOURTH PART ONLY. This first [English] edition of the translation was printed in folio at Antwerp, in
order to secure the woodcuts of the original and thus was printed from the original woodcuts. First set foorth in the Doutche or
Almaigne tongue, by that learned Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour ; and nowe first translated out of French into
English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer. Contains lead sheets of the Niewe Herball.

11 1/2” x 7 1/4”. 99 pp.

Lacks title page leaf and its verso, the shield and
motto of the author; Begins with the next page of the Historie, 2pp devoted to to the most high, noble, and renowned
Princess, most dread Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland, "signed" in print Henry
Lyte, Contains to the friendly and indifferent reader. With a dedicatory poem from W.B. but lacks the leaf with Thomas
Newtonus. 

The Commendation of the work, by W. Clowes its verso, "To the Reader" It contains the next leaf Johannis
Hardingi and its verso, the portrait of the author. Thus it contains most of the preliminaries to the complete Historie of Plantes.
The next leaf begins the fourth part of the Historie of plants (p. 453) and continues to the end of that chapter on p 544. With
several woodcuts of plants on most pages. 

Well printed in black letter. Rembert Dodoens was a native of Malines, now known
as Mechelen, Belgium. He became professor of medicine at Leyden in 1582. This book is an English translation of the French
translation by Charles de l'Ecluse, a noted linguist, traveller and author of several works of botany. This is part of the first
English edition of one of the classic 16th century herbals. It is richly ornamented by fine woodcut illustrations of the plants
along with descriptions of their properties. The first English herbal to be printed in England did not appear until 1586, when
Ninian Newton produced his version based on this work. Disbound. Pamphlet. 
Dodoens served as court physician to Emperor Rudolf II of Austria before becoming Professor of Medicine at Leiden
University in 1582.

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