De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes : maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati adjectis earvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad natur imitationem artificiosius efictis & expressis / Leonharto Fvchsio autore ; accessit iis succincta admodum uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere occurrentium explicatio ; unà cum quadruplici indicens\uorum primus quidem stirpium nomenclaturas Grcas, alter Latinas, tertius officinis seplasiariorum & herbariis usitatas, quartus Germanicas continebit.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566.

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 896 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Historia stirpium.

Place of Publication:

Basileae : In Officina Isingriniana, 1542.

Notes:

Subtitle: Regiones peregrinas pleri[que], alii alias, sumptu ingenti, studio indefesso, nec sine discrimine uit nonnunquam, adierunt, ut simplicium materi cognoscend 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.

Names of plants in Latin, Greek, and German.

"With ports. of the author, the designers, and the engraver. Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. of its illustrators."--Klebs. A catalogue of early herbals. 1925, no. 72.

Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1967. 10 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks of science)

OCLC:

8202638