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Leonharti Fuchsii medici, Primi de stirpium historia co[m]mentariorum tomi viuae imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] formam contractae, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissimè expressae : ut qui cunque rei herbariae radicitus cognoscendae desiderio tenentur, eas uel deambulantes uel peregrinantes in sinu co[m]modius gestare, adq[ue] natiuas herbas conferre queant.

Author/Creator:
Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566.
Publication:
Basileae : [Michael Isengrin], 1549.
Format/Description:
Book
16 unnumbered pages, 516 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)
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Standardized Title:
De historia stirpium
Other Title:
Primi de stirpium historia co[m]mentariorum tomi viuae imagines
Subjects:
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
Botany.
Place of Publication:
Switzerland Basel.
Notes:
Originally published in Basel, 1545.
Publisher's device on t.p. Cf. Grimm, H. Deutsche Buchdruckersignete des XVI Jahrhunderts, 1965, p. 133.
Signatures: A⁸ a-2i⁸ 2k².
Illustrated with 516 full-page woodcuts, reduced copies, in reverse of the woodcuts by Veit Rudolf Specklin after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albrect Meyer which appeared in the 1542 Isengrin ed. of Fuchs's De historia stirpium. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Includes index.
Local notes:
Ms. notes, in Italian, in outer margins.
Woodcuts decorated with colored inks.
Penn Chronology:
1549
Cited in:
VD 16 F3245
BM STC German, 1455-1600 p. 326
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 661
OCLC:
187481394