DODOENS, REMBERT. Cruyde-boeck. Antwerp, Loë, 1563. Small folio, 295 x 188 mm., old calf, rebacked, original gilt spine and gilt-lettered red morocco label preserved, new endleaves, titlepage soiled, first 8 leaves with repairs at gutter margins, minor dampstains a few marginal wormtracks to last leaf. Second edition. Woodcut titlepage border (signed with initials "PB" and "AF"), woodcut capitals, 840 quarter-page woodcuts (136 used for the first time in this edition), by Arnaud Nicolai after Pieter van der Borcht. Nissen 513; Stafleu & Cowan 1484.

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DODOENS, REMBERT. Cruyde-boeck. Antwerp, Loë, 1563. Small folio, 295 x 188 mm., old calf, rebacked, original gilt spine and gilt-lettered red morocco label preserved, new endleaves, titlepage soiled, first 8 leaves with repairs at gutter margins, minor dampstains a few marginal wormtracks to last leaf. Second edition. Woodcut titlepage border (signed with initials "PB" and "AF"), woodcut capitals, 840 quarter-page woodcuts (136 used for the first time in this edition), by Arnaud Nicolai after Pieter van der Borcht. Nissen 513; Stafleu & Cowan 1484.

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