lister: herbals and anciext 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 1 ’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, Austrian!. & vicinas quasdam Provincias 
observataru.m Historia. . . . Antverpiae, Ex ofhcina 
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 l’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 l’Obel. 
[Lent by Miss Willmott ] 
4t The Herbal or General Historie of Plantes. . . Very 
much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizin and 
Apothecarve of London. Printed by Adam Islip, Joice 
Norton, and Richard Whitakers. 1636.” 
Folio. 
