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Feb. 85
Dr Eichenberger
SF = 105 = $39
Bock, Hieronymus (Trogus) Heidelsheim near Bretten 1498-1554.
Kreuter Buch.
Strassbourg: 1577 Josias Richel. folio p. 220
STC (German) p. 130 Cap. xiii Von Welschen Bonen Nissen 182.
F. Ritter #215 Kreuter Buch W. Rihel 1551. (comme dans l'ed. 1546)
can. goth., 20ff non ch. CCCCXIII ff. LXXI ch., 8/6ff. non ch.
J. Muller #186 a 2 col. (Table des meladies) titre courant, reclames,
notes. marg., initiales goth., les graveure sont tires
de l'ed. de 1546 530 Holzchen.
Copy: Breslare UB, Berlin SB., Vienne BM
Bock is the 2nd of the German fathers of Botany. He had
supplied Brunfels with material for the great H. V. Eicones 1530-3
and Brunfels had strongly urged him to write his own
book in the vernacular. His descriptions of flowers were
remarkably clear, even withoutthe benifit of
illustration. He recognized the corolla, stamens + pistils
as essential parts of many followers + he is the 1st botanist
of the 16th C to feel the neccessity for some sort of classification.

Hunt #81 Kreuter Buch. Josias Rihel. 1560. Copy: Wolfenbuttel HB
leaves, [Xx, with leaf [XL] blank], ccccxiij, [7] leaf 12 5/8 x 8
J. Mullen #20 The 1st ed. in German was published in 1539 without
Ritter #218 Index Aureliennis 120. 595 illustrations, the ed. of 1546 was illustrated; the Latin ed.
of 1552 had been greatest number of illustrations (568), many
of them so lively, that it is understandable why they
were adapted for use in this German ed.
Hunt #66 De Stirpium Commentariorum libri tres ... translated by
David Kyber. W. Rihel 1552. 4 0 leaf 9 5/16 x 6 5/8. 4 0.
Nissen 183 This book was 1st printed in german in 1539 without
illustrations, in 1546 with illust., in 1551 with more (530) illust. +
[inserted] Quaritch Cat 1062 1986- $5000 [end inserted] many times thereafter (477). The de. of 1552 is the 1st
in Latin + had more woodcuts than any other previous (568)
edition. Several German plants were described + figured for the 1st time