FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542. 2° (386 x 246mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page portrait on verso, 512 woodcut illustrations by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes (title remargined at top and inner margin repaired and tipped-in, ?supplied from another copy, lacks final leaf with colophon, but supplied in facsimile, inner margin of first and last few pages repaired, woodcut of the 3 artists remargined at top and with closed tear in lower corner, numerous closed tears and repairs, the worst affecting text or image of c. 80 leaves, washed). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, elaborately blindstamped (rebacked, corners repaired, new leather for clasps, inner pastedown repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance : presentation inscription from Jacob to Justus Utenhovius, 1604 (on title) -- manuscript inscription and small stamp on verso of woodcut portraits of the 3 artists -- Jankok (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of 'perhaps the most beautiful herbal ever published' (PMM). Working in the tradition of the classical herbal reaching back to Dioscorides (1st century A.D.), Fuchs expanded its primarily medicinal and pharmacological interest to include descriptions of the characteristics of plants and their habitats. For that reason he, along with Otto Brunfels whom he fulsomely praises in his introduction, and Hieronymus Bock, are considered the fathers of modern botany. Fuchs describes over 400 German and 100 foreign plants, including those from the New World. His herbal is also modern in its accurate and elegant woodcuts drawn from life by Albert Meyer and largely based on plants in Fuchs's garden at Tübingen. Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred the designs to the woodblocks and Viet Rudolph Speckle cut the blocks for printing. Portraits of all 3 artists are included in the work, which is one of the earliest such honours accorded to contributing artists. The woodcuts were reused in later editions of the herbal, successfully reduced in smaller-format editions of it, copied in the works of Bock, Dodoens and others, and pirated in contemporary botanical works -- a use heatedly contested by Fuchs during his lifetime. Adams F1099; Grolier/Norman 100 Books Famous in Medicine 17; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138. Sold not subject to return.
FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542. 2° (386 x 246mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page portrait on verso, 512 woodcut illustrations by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes (title remargined at top and inner margin repaired and tipped-in, ?supplied from another copy, lacks final leaf with colophon, but supplied in facsimile, inner margin of first and last few pages repaired, woodcut of the 3 artists remargined at top and with closed tear in lower corner, numerous closed tears and repairs, the worst affecting text or image of c. 80 leaves, washed). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, elaborately blindstamped (rebacked, corners repaired, new leather for clasps, inner pastedown repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance : presentation inscription from Jacob to Justus Utenhovius, 1604 (on title) -- manuscript inscription and small stamp on verso of woodcut portraits of the 3 artists -- Jankok (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of 'perhaps the most beautiful herbal ever published' (PMM). Working in the tradition of the classical herbal reaching back to Dioscorides (1st century A.D.), Fuchs expanded its primarily medicinal and pharmacological interest to include descriptions of the characteristics of plants and their habitats. For that reason he, along with Otto Brunfels whom he fulsomely praises in his introduction, and Hieronymus Bock, are considered the fathers of modern botany. Fuchs describes over 400 German and 100 foreign plants, including those from the New World. His herbal is also modern in its accurate and elegant woodcuts drawn from life by Albert Meyer and largely based on plants in Fuchs's garden at Tübingen. Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred the designs to the woodblocks and Viet Rudolph Speckle cut the blocks for printing. Portraits of all 3 artists are included in the work, which is one of the earliest such honours accorded to contributing artists. The woodcuts were reused in later editions of the herbal, successfully reduced in smaller-format editions of it, copied in the works of Bock, Dodoens and others, and pirated in contemporary botanical works -- a use heatedly contested by Fuchs during his lifetime. Adams F1099; Grolier/Norman 100 Books Famous in Medicine 17; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138. Sold not subject to return.
FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542. 2° (386 x 246mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page portrait on verso, 512 woodcut illustrations by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes (title remargined at top and inner margin repaired and tipped-in, ?supplied from another copy, lacks final leaf with colophon, but supplied in facsimile, inner margin of first and last few pages repaired, woodcut of the 3 artists remargined at top and with closed tear in lower corner, numerous closed tears and repairs, the worst affecting text or image of c. 80 leaves, washed). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, elaborately blindstamped (rebacked, corners repaired, new leather for clasps, inner pastedown repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance : presentation inscription from Jacob to Justus Utenhovius, 1604 (on title) -- manuscript inscription and small stamp on verso of woodcut portraits of the 3 artists -- Jankok (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of 'perhaps the most beautiful herbal ever published' (PMM). Working in the tradition of the classical herbal reaching back to Dioscorides (1st century A.D.), Fuchs expanded its primarily medicinal and pharmacological interest to include descriptions of the characteristics of plants and their habitats. For that reason he, along with Otto Brunfels whom he fulsomely praises in his introduction, and Hieronymus Bock, are considered the fathers of modern botany. Fuchs describes over 400 German and 100 foreign plants, including those from the New World. His herbal is also modern in its accurate and elegant woodcuts drawn from life by Albert Meyer and largely based on plants in Fuchs's garden at Tübingen. Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred the designs to the woodblocks and Viet Rudolph Speckle cut the blocks for printing. Portraits of all 3 artists are included in the work, which is one of the earliest such honours accorded to contributing artists. The woodcuts were reused in later editions of the herbal, successfully reduced in smaller-format editions of it, copied in the works of Bock, Dodoens and others, and pirated in contemporary botanical works -- a use heatedly contested by Fuchs during his lifetime. Adams F1099; Grolier/Norman 100 Books Famous in Medicine 17; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138. Sold not subject to return.
FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542. 2° (386 x 246mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page portrait on verso, 512 woodcut illustrations by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes (title remargined at top and inner margin repaired and tipped-in, ?supplied from another copy, lacks final leaf with colophon, but supplied in facsimile, inner margin of first and last few pages repaired, woodcut of the 3 artists remargined at top and with closed tear in lower corner, numerous closed tears and repairs, the worst affecting text or image of c. 80 leaves, washed). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, elaborately blindstamped (rebacked, corners repaired, new leather for clasps, inner pastedown repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance : presentation inscription from Jacob to Justus Utenhovius, 1604 (on title) -- manuscript inscription and small stamp on verso of woodcut portraits of the 3 artists -- Jankok (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of 'perhaps the most beautiful herbal ever published' (PMM). Working in the tradition of the classical herbal reaching back to Dioscorides (1st century A.D.), Fuchs expanded its primarily medicinal and pharmacological interest to include descriptions of the characteristics of plants and their habitats. For that reason he, along with Otto Brunfels whom he fulsomely praises in his introduction, and Hieronymus Bock, are considered the fathers of modern botany. Fuchs describes over 400 German and 100 foreign plants, including those from the New World. His herbal is also modern in its accurate and elegant woodcuts drawn from life by Albert Meyer and largely based on plants in Fuchs's garden at Tübingen. Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred the designs to the woodblocks and Viet Rudolph Speckle cut the blocks for printing. Portraits of all 3 artists are included in the work, which is one of the earliest such honours accorded to contributing artists. The woodcuts were reused in later editions of the herbal, successfully reduced in smaller-format editions of it, copied in the works of Bock, Dodoens and others, and pirated in contemporary botanical works -- a use heatedly contested by Fuchs during his lifetime. Adams F1099; Grolier/Norman 100 Books Famous in Medicine 17; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138. Sold not subject to return.
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