farfel_n06_031_415

415
Dr. Eichenberger
Bienwilam See
May '94
Gift

Fuchs, Leonhard. (1505-1560)
De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes
See #130 Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542 folio [28] 896 pp[2]
Ref: Nissen 658. Pritzel 3138. Adams. F1099
Horblitt 35 b. Plesch #272 pp. 231-2. Durling 1675.
Copy: Stanford (Barchus QK 41 F7f) not colored.
511 woodcuts of plants, most full page.

1996 Copy 22,500 L
De Adianto Cap XXVIII p. 81+2
Adiantum Frawenhari (G5) of 6
(a kind of fern- maiden hair) frauenhaar (maiden hair)
(Adiantum, Capillus Veneris) See - #372
Michael Isingrin - 1556 - Gerogius Agricola - De re metallica.

Roman type (preface in italic), German plant names in
Gothic type, printer's woodcut device on title, + verso of
final leaf, full page portrait of the author, 509 full-page
botanical woodcuts + 3 smaller woodcuts in the text, by Veit
Rudolph Spackle after Heinrich Fullmaurer + Albrecht Meyer, 3
small woodcut self portraits of these artists. Numerous
6 line + smaller historical white-on-black woodcut initials.

p. 77-78 De Arcevtho. Cap XXVI
G3 Ivniperus minor. Wectholder
p. 79-80 De Alcea. Cap XXVII
G4 Sigmanskraut
p. 83-84 De Vite Vinifora Cap XXIX
G6 Weinreb

Dioscorides - Book IV #136 Adianton (Adientum Capillus - Veneris)
- Herbals were intended as guides in the preparation of drugs
rather than as works of botany for its own sake. But with the
Renaissance, pictures of plants drawn from nature began to
appear in them, long agter plants had begun to be drawn +
colored accurately by artists. All these herbals are discursive
+ full of surprising folklore, + they paved the way for modern
natural history when the critical spirit of scientific revolution began to affect their readers