FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. Large 2 o (370 x 242 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title, repeated on final verso, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 509 full-page botanical woodcuts and 3 smaller woodcuts in the text by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fllmaurer and Albert Meyer, including their own portraits on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes. (Minor worming in gutter margins of gathering R, affecting a few letters on two leaves, piece missing from lower blank margin of Z5, clean tear on a1 crossing image on recto and six lines of text on verso, large corner tear repaired on e1 affecting text slightly where re-joined.) Contemporary South-German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, panelled covers decorated with religious, putti, crest and portrait rolls, the latter signed AL, one (of 2) original brass clasp preserved, original endpapers, (a few minor defects). Provenance : early monastic ex-libris erased from title page; Joannes Braun, Ingolstadt, 1615 (signature, front pastedown); Joannes Angermller, Ingolstadt (signature, front pastedown); Andreas Heigl, doctor of medicine and philosophy, 1639 (Latin inscription, title page); Johann Sigismund Freytag, doctor of philosophy and medicine (Latin inscription on title page, bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FINEST BOTANICAL WORK OF THE RENAISSANCE AND "PERHAPS THE MOST CELEBRATED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL HERBAL EVER PUBLISHED" (PMM). Along with Otto Brunfels (see lot 48) and Hieronymus Bock, Fuchs was one of the three German fathers of modern botany. In addition to describing plants for their medicinal use, Fuchs also gives accurate botanical descriptions of over 500 plants. The finely detailed plant-portraits were drawn from life by Albert Meyer and transferred to the woodblock by Heinrich Fllmauer, and cut into wood by Veit Rudolph Speckle. The illustrations were largely based on plants in Fuchs's own garden at Tbingen and were reused in numerous later editions in various sizes; they also appear in herbals by other authors, including Bock, Dodoens, and William Turner IN PRISTINE CONDITION. Adams F-1099; Dibner Heralds of Science 19; Garrison & Morton 1808; Grolier/Horblit 33b; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138; Grolier Medicine 17; Norman 846.
FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes . Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. Large 2 o (370 x 242 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title, repeated on final verso, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 509 full-page botanical woodcuts and 3 smaller woodcuts in the text by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fllmaurer and Albert Meyer, including their own portraits on fff5r, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes. (Minor worming in gutter margins of gathering R, affecting a few letters on two leaves, piece missing from lower blank margin of Z5, clean tear on a1 crossing image on recto and six lines of text on verso, large corner tear repaired on e1 affecting text slightly where re-joined.) Contemporary South-German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, panelled covers decorated with religious, putti, crest and portrait rolls, the latter signed AL, one (of 2) original brass clasp preserved, original endpapers, (a few minor defects). Provenance : early monastic ex-libris erased from title page; Joannes Braun, Ingolstadt, 1615 (signature, front pastedown); Joannes Angermller, Ingolstadt (signature, front pastedown); Andreas Heigl, doctor of medicine and philosophy, 1639 (Latin inscription, title page); Johann Sigismund Freytag, doctor of philosophy and medicine (Latin inscription on title page, bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FINEST BOTANICAL WORK OF THE RENAISSANCE AND "PERHAPS THE MOST CELEBRATED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL HERBAL EVER PUBLISHED" (PMM). Along with Otto Brunfels (see lot 48) and Hieronymus Bock, Fuchs was one of the three German fathers of modern botany. In addition to describing plants for their medicinal use, Fuchs also gives accurate botanical descriptions of over 500 plants. The finely detailed plant-portraits were drawn from life by Albert Meyer and transferred to the woodblock by Heinrich Fllmauer, and cut into wood by Veit Rudolph Speckle. The illustrations were largely based on plants in Fuchs's own garden at Tbingen and were reused in numerous later editions in various sizes; they also appear in herbals by other authors, including Bock, Dodoens, and William Turner IN PRISTINE CONDITION. Adams F-1099; Dibner Heralds of Science 19; Garrison & Morton 1808; Grolier/Horblit 33b; Hunt 48; Nissen BBI 658; PMM 69; Pritzel 3138; Grolier Medicine 17; Norman 846.
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