Description: , niet alleen hier te lande wassende/ maer oock van den anderen vremden in der Medecijnen oorboorlijck/ met grooter neersticheyt begrepen ende verclaert (..)]. [“Ghedruckt Tantwerpen by Jan vander Loe [..]”, 1554]. 6 Parts in 1 volume. With 4 ident. woodcut printer’s devices (printed on verso final leaf of part 2-3 & 5-6) and ca. 700 woodcut text-illustrations (dep. various herbs & plants). Small folio (ca. 31 x 20 cm.), 20th-cent. black cloth. ? Nissen (BBI) 509. Garrison/ Morton 1812. Hunt 67n. Blunt p. 56. Very rare first edition (only 2 copies in NCC) of a famous 16th-cent. Dutch herbal by the Flemish physician & botanist Rembert Dodoens (=Rembertus Dodonaeus, 1517-1585) illustrated with botanical woodcuts by i.a. the Flemish printmaker Arnaud Nicolai (active between 1550-1596) after the Flemish artist Pieter van der Borcht (ca. 1530-1608). ? Incomplete copy: lacks at least title-leaf, 5 preliminary leaves (incl. a woodcut portrait of Dodoens), 2 text-leaves (K3 & Gg6) and 1 index-leaf (mmm6) (all replaced by 20th-cent. photostats). With defects (sold with all faults, not subject to return).