Cruijdeboeck. In den welcken die geheele historie/ dat es Tgheslacht/ tfatsoen/ nae[m]/ natuere, cracht ende werckinghe, van den Cruyden, niet alleen hier te lande wassende, maer oock van de[n] andere[n] vremde[n] in der medecynen oorboorlijck […].

[Antwerp, J. vander Loe], (col. 1563)

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Folio: [40]-dclxxxij [= 682]-[52] pp. (missing 3Q1; title sl. browned and underl. on lower margin, dampstaining in the margins more obtrusive near the end).

Later mottled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, endpapers renewed (sl. rubbed, some min. def.).

Second edition of the great Dutch botanical encyclopedia of Dodoens (1518-1585), 1st publ. 1554. Title within elaborate woodcut border, with "Cruijdeboeck" in xylographic letters. Ill. with 841 woodcuts of plants by Pieter vander Borcht & Antoon Bosch.
Ref. STCV. - BB II:207-208:D-108. - BT 950. - USTC 401136. - Bibl. Med. Neerl. I 502. - Wellcome I:1811. - Pettegree (NB) 9956.
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