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May 82
Beinwilam Sea
Dr Eichenberger
95 SF = $49.22

See #415 (1.93)
De Historia Stiapium commentarii insignes......
(1501-1566) Fuchs (Lunharto p .801 .802 Cap. CCCVIII First Edition
14 5/16 x 9 7/16" Basel Michael Isingrin, 1542 folio [28] 896 pp. [2]
381x248 (375x247mm) 518 12 09 woodcut illustrations of plants, all but 2 full page.
(XX5 of 6) Telephium Purpurescens. (Wundkraut mennle) Sold 1981 L8500
Horblitt 336 Plasch *272 pp 231-2 Nissen 658 Pritzel 3138 Arbei 212-217 Blumt pp 48-54
Printing with the Mind of Man 69, Murray Cot I. 175, Hunt 48. Art of Botanical Illust.
(12 1/4 x 9 1/4") - De historia stirpium, the Latin herbal of Koenhard Fuchs, includes
a full glossary of the technical terms used, which is of
historical importance, as the 1st document of the kind in
botanical literature. His definitions however, incline to be
rebelous, + are of little scientific value.
-Perhaps the most celebrated + most beautiful herbal ever
published. The illustrations are the most influential art
in botanical history, being used or copied in various
forms for seceral centuries.
-"employs a brillian Venetian italic" - Updike Roman Type (prefaca italic) pp. 144-5
Folger Booklet p. 34 -2nd of the German fathers of botany - only mature + undamaged
specimens were illustrated - it was Fuch's aim to provide
not only in the text but were in the illustration a complete
life history of a plant. So he showed the flower in all stages
from bud to fruit, the leaves in their various stages of
development + usually the active plant with its root. The
original draftsman was Albrecht Meyer, + the woodcut
engraver, Rudolf Speckle.
Otto Brunfels (d. 1534) Herbarum vivac eiconas, 1530, J Schott, Strassburg
Jerome Bock (Hieronymus Tragus) 1498-1554, New Kreutter Buch, 1539
Strasburg, Woundel Rihel.
Valerius Cordus (1515-44) Historia Stirpium -ed. by Gessner (1561.)

-a German translation was published the next year with a
new dedication, dated 3 March 1543.
-1st reproduction of maize (Zea mays) in a herbal.