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FUCHS, LEONHARD. 1501–1566. :Historia Stirpium Commentarii insignes. Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542.
Folio, (340 x 237 mm). Greek, roman and italic types. 509 full-page botanical woodcuts, 3 smaller cuts in the text, by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fullmauer and Albert Meyer, full-page full-length portrait of Fuchs on title verso, portraits of the 3 artists on fff5r, printer\’s device on title, repeated on final verso, historiated initials in several sizes. Modern calf, spine gilt. Title re-margined, first text leaf torn and repaired, O4-6 torn and repaired some mostly marginal staining, a few leaves with marginal tears and repairs.
FIRST EDITION. \”Perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published… important in the history of botanical illustration particularly because of the size and beauty of the woodcuts\” (PMM). Leonhard Fuchs professor of medicine at Tübingen, gives accurate descriptions of nearly 500 plants, of which forty had never before been depicted, the majority being native German plants. Amongst the foreign plants are some from America including corn, pumpkin, chili pepper, and snap bean. The illustrations were realized by Heinrich Füllmaurer, Veit Rudolph, and Albert Meyer, who drew the original images from life, mostly using samples from Fuchs\’ garden. Their portraits, with that of the author, appear in the book and represent \”one of the earliest examples of such a tribute paid to artists in a printed book\” (PMM). Adams F-1099; Nissen BBI 658; Pritzel 3138; PMM 69; VD16 F 3242.
