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Les fleurs du liure des vertus des herbes

Title: Les fleurs du liure des vertus des herbes / composé iadis en vers latins par Macer Floride, et illustré des commentaires de M. Guillaume Gueroult ... ; le tout mis en françois, par M. Lucas Tremblay ...
Author: Macer, Floridus.
Publication: A Rouen : Chez Martin, & Honoré Mallard, ruë de l'Orloge, à la grand' Nef, 1588.

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[8], 80 leaves : ill., port.; 19 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

Fleurs du lire des vertus des herbes
Fleurs Dv Livre Des Vertvs Des herbes

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Note

Translation of the first seven sections of De viribus herbarum, with the addition of "Recepte tres singuliere pour le mal des yeux" (leaves 75v-76r) and a final chapter on tobacco.
For earlier eds. in Latin, cf. Garrison & Morton (5th ed), 1791.
Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-K⁸.
Illustrations: 9 prints : woodcut ; full-page (1), image 70 x 55 mm. or smaller (8). Subject: Botanical materia medica (8) and port. of Lucas Tremblay.
Woodcut and type flower headpieces; historiated and floriated initials; printer's device on t.p.
"Description de l'herbe nicotiane: de ses proprietez & vertus": leaves 76-80. Includes ill. depicting the tobacco plant (small fig. at side depicts a man smoking with a coiled funnel), a copy of the cut first printed in Stirpium adversaria nova by Pierre Pena and Matthias de L'Obel (London, 1571); latter is described as the first recorded ill. of the tobacco plant in Arents, G. Tobacco, I, no. 13.
With: Monardes, Nicolás. Brief traité de la racine mechoacan, venue de l'Espagne nouuelle. A Rouen : Chez Martin, & Honoré Mallard ..., 1588. Issued together?

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Brunet
Grässe
Pritzel

Call Number

Arents 95-319 no. 1

OCLC

NYPG95-B4900

Author

Macer, Floridus.

Title

Les fleurs du liure des vertus des herbes / composé iadis en vers latins par Macer Floride, et illustré des commentaires de M. Guillaume Gueroult ... ; le tout mis en françois, par M. Lucas Tremblay ...

Imprint

A Rouen : Chez Martin, & Honoré Mallard, ruë de l'Orloge, à la grand' Nef, 1588.

Indexed In:

Brunet III, col. 1271

Grässe IV, p. 322

Pritzel 5711

Local Note

In Arents copy, first gathering is misbound, with leaf [cross]8 following leaf [cross]1 (t.p.).

Binding: Modern paper boards with gilt spine label.

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Added Author

Guéroult, Guillaume, -1559.

Tremblay, Lucas, active 1578-1588.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-319 no. 1

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