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Ortus Sanitatis (15 15) and several later editions; The 

 Grete Herball (1526), the first and second editions of 

 Fuchs (1542 and 1543), Gerard's Catalogue (very few 

 known copies), The Wilton Garden, by Isaac de Caus 

 (only two known copies), Walafred Strabo (first and 

 second edition, Vienna 15 10 and Nuremburg 15 12), 

 Bartholomaeus Anglicus (1483), Pliny's Historia Naturalis 

 (1480), the first editions of both Colonna's books and 

 twenty original drawings by Ehret. 



Le Grand Herbier is amongst the rarest of herbals and 

 during recent years very few copies have come into the 

 market. It is far rarer than the earlier Ortus Sanitatis. 

 The English translation, The Grete Herball, printed by 

 Peter Treveris, was the earliest English-printed herbal, 

 although no copies of the first two editions (15 16 and 

 1525), mentioned by Ames and Hazlitt, are now to be 

 found in any of the chief British libraries. The printer's 

 device at the end of the English translation is fascinating. 

 The woodcut represents a man and a woman on either 

 side of a tree from which hangs a shield with Peter 

 Treveris' initials. It is generally supposed that Peter 

 Treveris was a member of the Cornish family of 

 Treffry, sometimes spelt Treveris. A Sir John Treffry 

 who fought at Poitiers took as supporters to his arms 

 a wild man and woman, and his descendant perpetuated 

 the memory of his ancestor by adopting the sign for his 

 device. 



Of the earliest German herbals this library contains 

 Brunfels' Herbarum vivae eicones (1532), notable for its 

 beautiful illustrations, Brunfels being the first to use 

 naturalistic drawings ; the first edition of Hieronymus 

 Bock's Kreuterbuch (1539), also the 1546 edition ; the first 



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