Dodoens, Rembert; Lyte, Henry (trans.) A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants. [London, c.1578 (lacking title-page)]. 4to, later rebound in paper-backed boards with paper lettering-piece, blue speckled edges; [2 (Epistle to the Queen, dated 1578)], [1 (To the Friendly and Indifferent Reader)], [2 (Poems by WB and Thomas Newton)], [2 (Recommendations by W. Clowes and T[?homas] N[?ewton], [5 (Praefatio ad Medicinae Candidatos)], [2 (Last leaf of Appendix misbound according to catchwords)], [3 (Epistola ad Lectorem)], [5 (Appendix)], [1]-564 (lacking leaves E1+6 and Q6), [10 (Index of Latin names)], [5 (Index Apellationum...)], [7 (Index of English Names)], [8 (Table of the Natures, Virtues and Dangers of the Herbs)]; inhabited and floriated intials in Latin prelims, head- and tail-pieces to the six books, occasional early marginalia, seeming mainly monetary calculations. Lyte's translation of Doedens work was hugely significant in the study of herbs and their operations. It was the standard work in the latter half of the 16th century and was a huge influence on Gerard and Parkinson. Sibly, Ebeneezer Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal. Printed for the Author, [c.1798 (year of Masonry 5798 according to dedication)]. 4to, full calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked with morocco lettering piece to spine; pp. xvi, 396, [2 (title, verso blank), 256; eng. port. frontis and 29 eng. botanical plates (lacking plates in the English Physician). Sibly's edition of Culpeper sought to maintain the occult aspects of natural philosophy, drawing on the astrological and sympathetic vitues of the herbs.