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De historia stirpium commentarii insignes : maximis impensis et uigiliis elaborati, adiectis earundem uiuis plusquam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis / <U+01C2>c Leonharto Fuchsio medico hac nostra aetate longè clarissimo, autore. Regiones peregrinas pleriq[ue], 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 iucundissimoq́[ue] 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

by: Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566; Füllmaurer, Heinrich, ill; Meyer, Albrecht, fl. 1542, ill; Specklin, Veit Rudolph, d. 1550, engraver; Lloyd, binder. DSI; Morris, H. C. L., former owner. DSI; Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1542

Topics: Botany, Botany, Medical, Plants, Early works to 1800

Publisher: Basileae : In officina Isingriniana

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

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 p

citation/reference: Adams F1099

citation/reference: Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books, 33b

citation/reference: Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 19

citation/reference: Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit., 1909

Names of plants in Latin, Greek and German

Adams

Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit

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