BOTANIK - Herbal books - Dodoens, Rembert. Trium priorum de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines ad vivum expressae. With small woodcut title, 1 full-page woodcut portrait. Woodcut portrait, 438 woodcuts of plants and printer's mark at the end. Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1553. Cl.-8° (16,5 × 11,5 cm). [24] vols. (d.l.w.), 439 p., [4] vols. Half leather binding of the 19th century with gilt-stamped spine title (capitals somewhat bumped, small joint tear, rubbed). Adams D 723 - Nissen BBI 507 - Pritzel 2343 - Hunt 68 - not in Durling and Wellcome. - Rare small herb book by the Flemish physician and botanist, who worked as a professor of medicine in Leiden. "It contains only the illustrations taken from the first part of his 'Cruydeboeck', which was then being prepared for publication" (Hunt). - Slightly browned, faint dampstaining in lower margin, a few woodcuts inscribed by an old hand. Remainder of stamp on flyleaf. On flyleaf endpaper.