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The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.

Publication Details

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934 CE.

Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.

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Publication place: Oxford