
Accession number
PML 25988
Creator
Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566.
Published
Basileae [Basel] : In officina Isingriniana, anno Christi MDXLII [1542]
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Subtitle: Regiones peregrinas pleri[que], alij alias, sumptu ingenti, studio indefesso, nec sine discrimine uitae nonnunquam, adierunt, ut simplicium materiae cognoscendae facultatem compararent sibi : eam tibi materiam uniuersam summo & impensarum & temporis compendio, procul discrimine omni, tanquam in uiuo iucundissimo[que] uiridario, magna cum uoluptate, hinc cognoscere licebit.
Cuts by V.R. Specklin from drawings by H. Füllmaurer and A. Meyer.
With ports. of the author, the designers, and the engraver (leaf fff5r). Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. of its illustrators. Cf. Becher; cf. Klebs. A catalogue of early herbals. 1925, no. 72.
Printer's device with motto "Palma Ising" on title page and final blank verso.
Cuts by V.R. Specklin from drawings by H. Füllmaurer and A. Meyer.
With ports. of the author, the designers, and the engraver (leaf fff5r). Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. of its illustrators. Cf. Becher; cf. Klebs. A catalogue of early herbals. 1925, no. 72.
Printer's device with motto "Palma Ising" on title page and final blank verso.
Description
[28], 896, [4] pages : illustrations, portraits (woodcuts) ; 39 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Woodcuts hand-colored. Each plant illustration is annotated in two different hands with the Linnean genus and species name.
Provenance
Urusla von Solms, Grafin von Montfort-Rotenfels (1528-1606), donation inscription, 15 May 1587 (title page); German ownership inscriptions, 1616, 1717, and 1741 (front endleaf 1 verso); Valentin Feederle (1796-1879), inscription passing book on to his son, Hubert, who was the forest manager for the Princes of Fürstenberg in Purglitz (Baden-Wurttemberg), in 1855 (front endleaf 1 recto); Ernst Ph. Goldschmidt, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, Inc., 1928.
Binding
Contemporary stamped pigskin over boards; clasps lacking.
Classification
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