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"Perhaps the most celebrated and beautiful herbal ever published." The commentary contains some 150 illustrations, 100 in color, that include contemporary hand-colored figures from printed copies of the herbal and woodcuts hand-colored under Fuchs' supervision for a projected, unpublished elaboration of the original herbal. Of invaluable interest to historians of medicine, pharmacology, philology, art, and printing, it will also appeal to collectors of fine and rare books, gardeners, and proponents of alternative medicine. The exhaustively detailed commentary will become the standard reference work for Renaissance botany. The original Latin edition of 1542 is here reprinted in a facsimile only slightly smaller than the original, as the second volume of this set. During Fuchs' lifetime, the herbal and its various abridgements went through 39 printings in Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch. These figures established a standard of botanical illustration that has lasted to the present day, and more than 100 species were illustrated for the first time (including 12 New World plants such as maize, kidney bean, chili pepper, cactus, and tobacco). It is illustrated with 511 woodcut figures, all original and depicted from life.
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The plan and organization of the herbal was entirely original with Fuchs, although the work included a vast amount of material derived from his Classical predecessors.įuchs's book is of great splendor, without equal among sixteenth-century herbals. This changed in the early sixteenth century with the emergence in Germany of the new form of a printed, illustrated herbal, led by De historia stirpium commentarii insignes by Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566). Fuchs botanical work Historia Stirpium, published in 1542 is regarded as a landmark in the development. The 490 year old version of the piece of art measures the. Leonhart Fuchs Woodcuts Leonhart Fuchs -+ Physician, botanist, Gemany woodcut from his New Kreuterbuch, Basel - 1543 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist and physician. The herbal, a compilation of information on the medicinal properties of plants, had declined in the Middle Ages. The product details This 16th century artpiece was painted by the artist Fuchs Leonhart in 1525. Only some 150 copies of the herbal are known to survive in rare book collections, and in the antiquarian book market it commands high prices (a copy was sold at Christie's for $17,000 in 1997). Leonhart Fuchs's herbal-recognized for more than four centuries as a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and one of the most beautiful books ever printed-now appears for the first time in a facsimile edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary based on three decades of historical and botanical research the two volumes are published as a handsome boxed set.