LONITZER, Adam (1528-1586). Kreuterbüch, Kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze. Frankfurt am Maine: Sigismund Latomus for Vincent Steinmeyer, 1616. 2° (295 x 185mm). Collation: )( 6 ; **-*** 4 ; A-O 6 P 4 Q-Z 6 a-z 6 Aa-Ee 6 Ff 4 ; AA-MM 6 NN1 (lacking all after NN1). Title in red and black with HAND-COLOURED WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION (tear at outer margin neatly repaired), hand-coloured woodcut illustrations throughout, showing distillery apparatus, plants, animals, birds, fish, shells, seaweed and precoius stones, metals and minerals. (Lacking all after NN1, a few leaves with clean tears to lower or outer margin, affecting several lines of text on leaves D2, m3, and Dd3, affecting one line of text on leaves T5, a6 and m2, some worming at beginning and end of volume, occasional light staining.) 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands (rebacked, covers wormed, lacking clasps). Provenance : Monry (or Henry?) Rhenoviensis (inscription on title); the front pastedown inscribed by: 1) Hans Andreas ?Rusinar; 2) inscription partly deleted, dated 1627; 3) Caspar Hahn. The third Steinmeyer edition of this popular herbarium, which also includes descriptions of animals, birds, fish and mineralogy and details of distilling apparatus. Adam Lonitzer (or Lonicerus) was a German physician who practised botany at Frankfurt and Marburg. His herbal was first printed in 1557, and is a compilation based on previous works, principally Eucharius Rösslin's Kreuterbuch of 1533 and T. Dorsten's Botanicon . The woodcuts are copied from the herbals of Brunfels, Fuchs, Bock and others. Although Lonitzer's herbals had little or no influence on Linnaean and post-Linnaean taxonomy, they were widely used until the 18th century. Cf. Nissen BBI 1228.
LONITZER, Adam (1528-1586). Kreuterbüch, Kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze. Frankfurt am Maine: Sigismund Latomus for Vincent Steinmeyer, 1616. 2° (295 x 185mm). Collation: )( 6 ; **-*** 4 ; A-O 6 P 4 Q-Z 6 a-z 6 Aa-Ee 6 Ff 4 ; AA-MM 6 NN1 (lacking all after NN1). Title in red and black with HAND-COLOURED WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION (tear at outer margin neatly repaired), hand-coloured woodcut illustrations throughout, showing distillery apparatus, plants, animals, birds, fish, shells, seaweed and precoius stones, metals and minerals. (Lacking all after NN1, a few leaves with clean tears to lower or outer margin, affecting several lines of text on leaves D2, m3, and Dd3, affecting one line of text on leaves T5, a6 and m2, some worming at beginning and end of volume, occasional light staining.) 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands (rebacked, covers wormed, lacking clasps). Provenance : Monry (or Henry?) Rhenoviensis (inscription on title); the front pastedown inscribed by: 1) Hans Andreas ?Rusinar; 2) inscription partly deleted, dated 1627; 3) Caspar Hahn. The third Steinmeyer edition of this popular herbarium, which also includes descriptions of animals, birds, fish and mineralogy and details of distilling apparatus. Adam Lonitzer (or Lonicerus) was a German physician who practised botany at Frankfurt and Marburg. His herbal was first printed in 1557, and is a compilation based on previous works, principally Eucharius Rösslin's Kreuterbuch of 1533 and T. Dorsten's Botanicon . The woodcuts are copied from the herbals of Brunfels, Fuchs, Bock and others. Although Lonitzer's herbals had little or no influence on Linnaean and post-Linnaean taxonomy, they were widely used until the 18th century. Cf. Nissen BBI 1228.
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