A nievve herball, or historie of plantes
Subtitle: wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes, their names, natures, operations and vertues : and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, common vsed in physicke
By: first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned d. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the emperour, and nowe first translated out of French into English by Henry Lyte esquyer
Contributors: Lyte, Henry, 1529?-1607; Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608; Nicolai, Arnaud
Publisher: Gerard Dewes
Published: 1578
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 779
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Medicinal plants; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Niewe herball, or historie of plantes
Work titles: Cruydeboeck
Notes: Written in Dutch and first published at Antwerp in 1554. The present work is Lyte's English translation from the French of Charles de l'Ecluse. See Hunt botanical cat.

Colophon: Im[p]rinted at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë Bookprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves.

Woodcut ornamental t.p. border with figures from classical history and mythology. Incorporated at the foot are the initials P B (Pierre van der Borcht), and at the lower right corner an A (Arnold Nicolai); see Henrey. Lyte's arms on t.p. verso. Port. of Dodoens on verso of 6th leaf, signed with initial A, perhaps again by Nicolai after van der Borcht. Ill. of plants are those used for the Flemish and French eds.; see Henrey.

Includes indexes.

Hunt botanical cat. 132

Henrey, B.  Brit. botanical lit., p. 32-36