The noble lyfe & natures of man, of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen / [Laurence Andrew].

The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes : with the fygures of styllatoryes / fyrst made and compyled by the thyrte yeres study and labour of ... Master Jherom Bruynswyke ... ; and now newly translate out of Duyche into Englysshe.

79 pages, 82 unnumbered leaves, A*6, B-V*4 : woodcut title page in red & black, woodcuts ; (folio)

The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of  the herbes in this present volume expressed : with the fygures  of the stillatoryes to that noble worke belongynge / fyrst made and compyled by the thirtye yeres studye and labour of the moste famous and expert master of phisyke, Master Iherom Bruynswyke ... ; and nowe of late newly translated into Englysshe out of Duche by me Laurence Andrew.

Online resource (79 pages, 82 unnumbered leaves, A*6, B-V*4 : woodcut title page in red & black, woodcuts, (fol.)).

276 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (folio)

xiii, 164, xvii-xxx pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

An early English version of Hortus Sanitatis : a recent bibliographical discovery by Noel Hudson.

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Andrew, Laurence, active 1510-1537

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The noble lyfe & natures of man, of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen / [Laurence Andrew].

The noble lyfe & natures of man, of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen / [Laurence Andrew].

The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes : with the fygures of styllatoryes / fyrst made and compyled by the thyrte yeres study and labour of ... Master Jherom Bruynswyke ... ; and now newly translate out of Duyche into Englysshe.

An early English version of Hortus Sanitatis : a recent bibliographical discovery by Noel Hudson.

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