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DODOENS, Rembert (1518-1585). Crüijdeboeck. Antwerp: Jan van der Loë, [1552]-1554.
6 parts in one volume, 2° (284 x 183mm). General title with historiated woodcut border, 5 partly xylographic sectional titles, woodcut portrait of Dodoens on *iiiv, 715 botanical woodcuts, some by A. Nicolai after P. van der Borcht, publisher's device at the end of parts 2-3 and 5. (Title torn with slight loss at upper corner, repaired along foremargin of verso with partial loss to the first letter of each line of text, also slightly soiled and creased, some persistent staining in the first two parts, waterstaining in the final three parts, some marginal soiling, crude repair to blank margin of I5, N1 with paper fault slightly affecting text on recto, Gg5 with burnhole affecting woodcut on recto and text on verso, extensive marginal repairs to final leaf of part 6 and final index leaf, some smaller repairs to margins of early leaves and occasionally elsewhere, lacking one index leaf, mmmi.) 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, blue edges (spine detached, front hinges split). Provenance: Strambache (early signature at head of title).
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of this celebrated herbal, the first botanical work to be written, rather than translated, by Dodoens. There are only 5 recorded copies of the first edition, excluding the present copy; the last copy to be sold at auction was the hand-coloured Plesch copy, Sotheby's, 16 June 1975, lot 212, for £3850. This copy is sold with two related 19th-century pamphlets, Broeckx's Un Mot de le Période Erudite de la Médecine en Belgique (Malines, 1847) and the same author's Eloge de Rembert Dodoëns (Brussels, 1856), both in original wrappers. Nissen BBI 509; Pritzel 2344 ('editio princeps rarissima'); Stafleu and Cowan 1482; not in Adams or BL. (3)
6 parts in one volume, 2° (284 x 183mm). General title with historiated woodcut border, 5 partly xylographic sectional titles, woodcut portrait of Dodoens on *iiiv, 715 botanical woodcuts, some by A. Nicolai after P. van der Borcht, publisher's device at the end of parts 2-3 and 5. (Title torn with slight loss at upper corner, repaired along foremargin of verso with partial loss to the first letter of each line of text, also slightly soiled and creased, some persistent staining in the first two parts, waterstaining in the final three parts, some marginal soiling, crude repair to blank margin of I5, N1 with paper fault slightly affecting text on recto, Gg5 with burnhole affecting woodcut on recto and text on verso, extensive marginal repairs to final leaf of part 6 and final index leaf, some smaller repairs to margins of early leaves and occasionally elsewhere, lacking one index leaf, mmmi.) 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, blue edges (spine detached, front hinges split). Provenance: Strambache (early signature at head of title).
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of this celebrated herbal, the first botanical work to be written, rather than translated, by Dodoens. There are only 5 recorded copies of the first edition, excluding the present copy; the last copy to be sold at auction was the hand-coloured Plesch copy, Sotheby's, 16 June 1975, lot 212, for £3850. This copy is sold with two related 19th-century pamphlets, Broeckx's Un Mot de le Période Erudite de la Médecine en Belgique (Malines, 1847) and the same author's Eloge de Rembert Dodoëns (Brussels, 1856), both in original wrappers. Nissen BBI 509; Pritzel 2344 ('editio princeps rarissima'); Stafleu and Cowan 1482; not in Adams or BL. (3)
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