LISTER : HERBALS AND ANCIENT BOOKS ON BOTANY. 289
This book is professedly a translation of the French
version of Dodoens' Cruydeboeck of 1554, which had been made
by de l'Ecluse in 1557 ; but Lyte was no mechanical translator,
for the original work is corrected and careful notes and references
are introduced. The illustrations are the same as those which
had appeared in the translation by de l'Ecluse, and were for
the most part copies of those in the octavo edition of Fuchs'
herbal, with some additional blocks which had been cut especially
for Dodoens.
[Lent by the President]
Charles de l'Ecluse (or Clusius).
"A Caroli Clusii Atrebatis Rariorum aliquot Stirpium, per
Pannoniam, Austriam, & vicinas quasdam Provincial
observatarum Historia. . . . Antverpiae, Ex officina
Christophori Plantani, 1583." [History of the rarer plants
observed in Hungary, Austria, etc.].
Small 8vo., bound in calf. The full-page illustrations
are very beautiful and faithful representations of the plants
described; in all cases the root is depicted, as well as leaves and
flowers.
[Lent by Miss Willmott]
Gerard's Herbal.
"The Herball or generall Historie of Plantes Gathered
by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirugerie. Im-
printed at London by John Norton. 1597."
Folio. First edition.
This book is a translation of Dodoens' "Pemptades" (pub-
lished 1583), made by Dr. Priest, who died before the work
was finished. Gerard adopted Priest's translation, completed
it, and published it as his own. merely altering the arrange-
ment from that of Dodoens to that of de I'Obel. The illus-
trations are nearly all from blocks used by Tabernaemontanus
for his "Eicones" of 1590, and are for the most part repro-
duced from Bock, Fuchs, Matthioli, de l'Ecluse, and de I'Obel.
[Lent by Miss Willmott]
"The Herbal or General Historie of Plantes. . . Very
much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizin and
Apothecarye of London. Printed by Adam Islip, Joke
Norton, and Richard Whitakers. 1636."
Folio.