MONARDES, NICOLAS. Ioyfull Newes out of the new found world. wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of divers and sundrie Herbs, Trees, Oyles, Plants, & Stones, with their applications... Englished by Iohn Frampton... Newly corrected... Whereunto are added three other bookes. London: (Thomas Dawson for) William Norton, 1580. 4to, 186 x 137 mm. (7 5/16 x 5 7/16), 19th-century calf, covers with gold-tooled border, spine gilt, morocco lettering-pieces bearing title, date and unidentified owner's gilt-stamped boar device, joints cracked, extremities worn, lacks first blank leaf, marginal soiling and occasional staining to first and last few leaves, small repaired hole to gutter margin of fols. A1-2, short marginal tear to last 2 leaves. Second (first complete) edition in English, translated by Frampton from the original Spanish edition of 1574, first, uncorrected issue, with uncancelled leaves Ss3-4, Vv1-2 and Yy1, this copy with fol. 98 misfoliated "99" (and not "103" as called for by Hunt), gothic type, translator's dedications in roman, headlines and shoulder-notes in italic, two typographic title-borders, 9-line historiated and 6-line ornamental woodcut initials, numerous text woodcuts of American plants, trees, stones and fruit, a few full-page. Alden & Landis 580/51; Arents (Add.) 63; Hunt 137; Pritzel 6366; Sabin 49945 ("contains three additional books not in the former edition. It commences with a notice of Columbus' discovery, and among other curious matters contains a long article on tobacco").

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MONARDES, NICOLAS. Ioyfull Newes out of the new found world. wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of divers and sundrie Herbs, Trees, Oyles, Plants, & Stones, with their applications... Englished by Iohn Frampton... Newly corrected... Whereunto are added three other bookes. London: (Thomas Dawson for) William Norton, 1580. 4to, 186 x 137 mm. (7 5/16 x 5 7/16), 19th-century calf, covers with gold-tooled border, spine gilt, morocco lettering-pieces bearing title, date and unidentified owner's gilt-stamped boar device, joints cracked, extremities worn, lacks first blank leaf, marginal soiling and occasional staining to first and last few leaves, small repaired hole to gutter margin of fols. A1-2, short marginal tear to last 2 leaves. Second (first complete) edition in English, translated by Frampton from the original Spanish edition of 1574, first, uncorrected issue, with uncancelled leaves Ss3-4, Vv1-2 and Yy1, this copy with fol. 98 misfoliated "99" (and not "103" as called for by Hunt), gothic type, translator's dedications in roman, headlines and shoulder-notes in italic, two typographic title-borders, 9-line historiated and 6-line ornamental woodcut initials, numerous text woodcuts of American plants, trees, stones and fruit, a few full-page. Alden & Landis 580/51; Arents (Add.) 63; Hunt 137; Pritzel 6366; Sabin 49945 ("contains three additional books not in the former edition. It commences with a notice of Columbus' discovery, and among other curious matters contains a long article on tobacco").