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number of the some 1000 cuts reproduced in Dodoens'
Cruydeboeck as published by Joannes Locus (Dutch ed.
in 1554 & 1563 ; French Translation in 1557; English
Translation in 1578) - See #52.
1616 ed.
Stanford
printed on an off-white paper.
my leaf p. 327 & 328 (e2)
326 De nadice Caua Cap IIII
329 De Dracontio Ca VI
Section 1 - vegetables 2 - plants remarkable for their flowering
3 - medicinal plants 4 - food plants growing in soil or water
5 plants used as condiments, edible & non-edible 6 - trees
& shrubs.
The plant nomenclature is given in 10 languages.

E. L. Greene - In the Pemptades, the botanist in Dodoens was more to the
fore , & the physician less in the evidence than in his earlier
work.
Dodonaeus (Dodoens) the 1st Belgian botanist of world-wide renown.
He studied at Louvain , was court physician at Vienna, &
1582 became professor of pathological & therapeutic
medicine at Leiden.
4 p.l., 28 pp, (2) leaves (blank, colophon).
Hunt 143 - 1st ed. of Dodoen's last & most comprehensive botanical
work incorporating material from a number of his
earlier books including the "Cruydeboeck."

Plantin became the accredited publisher of the greatest botanists
of his time & his herbals did full justice to the work of
R. Dodoens, M. de l' Obel & C. de l' Ecluse