De historia stirpium commentarii insignes : maximis impensis et uigiliis elaborati, adiectis earundem uiuis plusquam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis / -c Leonharto Fuchsio medico hac nostra aetate longè clarissimo, autore. Regiones peregrinas plerique, alij alias, sumptu ingenti, studio indefesso, nec sine discrimine uirae nonnunquam, adierunt, ut simplicium materiae cognoscendae facultatem compararent sibi: eam tibi materiam uniuersam summo & impensarum & temporis compendio, procul discrimine omni, tanquam in uiuo iucundissimoq́ue uiridario, magna cum uoluptate, hinc cognoscere licebit. Accessit ijs succincta admodum uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere occurrentium explicatio. Vnà cum quadruplici indice, quorum primus quidem stirpium nomenclaturas Graecas, alter Latinas, tertius officinis seplasiariorum & herbarijs usitatas, quartus Germanicas continebit

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Notes: 509 full page woodcuts (included in pagination); portraits of author (title page verso) and illustrators (penultimate leaf recto); Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. of its illustrators. See Klebs. A catalogue of early herbals. 1925, no. 72; Illustrated by Heinricus Füllmaurer, Albertus Meyer ("pictores") and Vitus Rodolph. Speckle ("sculptor"); Woodcut publisher's device on title page and colophon, with motto: Palma Ising; Initials; side-notes. Some text printed in double columns; Includes indexes and a glossary; Errata on final page; Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, F1099; Horblit, H.D. One hundred books famous in science, 33b; Dibner Library. Heralds of science, 19; Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 1909; Also available online; SCDIRB copy 39088002949543 has bookplates: 1. Ex libris H.C.L. Morris M.D.; 2. Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner; SCDIRB copy has light hand-coloring on a few of the plant illustrations; SCDIRB copy has an antique-style binding (probably 19th century) of deeply blind-panel-stamped leather with raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, and all edges gilt. Signed: Bound by Lloyd, London. Housed in a modern linen clamshell box with printed brown paper spine labels; Elecresource

Physical description: [28], 896, [4] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 38 cm (fol.)