Kruydtboeck oft Beschrijuinghe van allerleye Ghewassen, Kruyderen, Hesteren, ende Gheboomten / [Matthias de L'Obel].

  • L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616
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Kruydtboeck oft Beschrijuinghe van allerleye Ghewassen, Kruyderen, Hesteren, ende Gheboomten / [Matthias de L'Obel]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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T'Antwerpen : By Christoffel Plantyn, 1581.

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6 pages leaves, 994, 312, 15 pages, 67 unnumbered pages : woodcut t.page & illustrations ; (folio)

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Title within border illustrated with printer's device, coat of arms, heroic figures, etc
A revision and rearrangement of L'Obel's Plantarum, sev Stirpivm historia, 1576; translated by himself, with the help, it is supposed, of Martin Everaert. For detailed description, cf. Bibl. belgica, 1. sér., v. 18
"Vande succedanea ... volghende hier in ... Rondelet"
Copy 1 Note: On the verso of the last leaf before Index has been pasted a cutdown engraving by Bartholomaeus Sprang and J. Goltzius dated 1585 showing Adam and Eve standing by the Tree of Knowledge. The illus. and t.p have been coloured by hand, and the coats-of-arms, etc., illuminated. Inserted are 10 water-colour drawings 9 large and 1 small, two of them dated 1586, with descriptions by a contemporary hand.

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