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

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 · 1542 · Basileae : In officina Isingriniana · 9 pictures

Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium, printed in Basel in 1542 by the Isingrin office, is a Latin herbal for physicians and students of medicinal plants. Its pictures are close, outlined botanical drawings of single plants with roots, stems, leaves and flowers labelled by name, giving designers clear models of plant structure and early printed line work.

Botany · Botany, Medical · Plants · Early works to 1800

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