BOCK, Hieronymus (1489?-1554). Kreüterbuch, darin underscheidt Namen und Würckung der Kreüter, Stauden, Hecken und Bäume mit ihren Früchten so in Teutschen Landen wachsen. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 28 August 1595.
BOCK, Hieronymus (1489?-1554). Kreüterbuch, darin underscheidt Namen und Würckung der Kreüter, Stauden, Hecken und Bäume mit ihren Früchten so in Teutschen Landen wachsen. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 28 August 1595. 2° (323 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black, OVER 500 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLANTS BY DAVID KANDEL, HAND-COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, full-page coat-of-arms and portrait (browned and staining, 3D5 with lower right corner supplied in facsimile affecting text, a few other marginal repairs or tears). Contemporary richly decorated blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in six compartments with early calf overlay decorated in gilt, gilt lettered red morocco spine label, edges stained black (clasps and spineends renewed, chipping to calf overlay). Provenance : Jean Andre Rosengart de Thann (owners name on title dated 1740 and on endpapers). Enlarged edition of Bock's great herbal, one of the most popular herbals of the 16th century. Bock was the first botanist to describe plants in a systematic manner that was based uniquely on his own observations. His aim, as stated on the title-page, was revolutionary: to describe the characteristics and effects of the plants of Germany, a very different study from all previous herbals, which had been concerned with identifying the plants of Dioscorides. The fourth part is the Teutsche Speisskammer which discusses food and drink preparations and deals with milk, butter, cheeses, honey, sugar, salt, spice, herbs and vegetables. BMC/STC German p.130; Cleveland Collections 138; Nissen BBI 182; Wellcome 914; see Bitting 46.
BOCK, Hieronymus (1489?-1554). Kreüterbuch, darin underscheidt Namen und Würckung der Kreüter, Stauden, Hecken und Bäume mit ihren Früchten so in Teutschen Landen wachsen. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 28 August 1595.
BOCK, Hieronymus (1489?-1554). Kreüterbuch, darin underscheidt Namen und Würckung der Kreüter, Stauden, Hecken und Bäume mit ihren Früchten so in Teutschen Landen wachsen. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 28 August 1595. 2° (323 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black, OVER 500 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLANTS BY DAVID KANDEL, HAND-COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, full-page coat-of-arms and portrait (browned and staining, 3D5 with lower right corner supplied in facsimile affecting text, a few other marginal repairs or tears). Contemporary richly decorated blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in six compartments with early calf overlay decorated in gilt, gilt lettered red morocco spine label, edges stained black (clasps and spineends renewed, chipping to calf overlay). Provenance : Jean Andre Rosengart de Thann (owners name on title dated 1740 and on endpapers). Enlarged edition of Bock's great herbal, one of the most popular herbals of the 16th century. Bock was the first botanist to describe plants in a systematic manner that was based uniquely on his own observations. His aim, as stated on the title-page, was revolutionary: to describe the characteristics and effects of the plants of Germany, a very different study from all previous herbals, which had been concerned with identifying the plants of Dioscorides. The fourth part is the Teutsche Speisskammer which discusses food and drink preparations and deals with milk, butter, cheeses, honey, sugar, salt, spice, herbs and vegetables. BMC/STC German p.130; Cleveland Collections 138; Nissen BBI 182; Wellcome 914; see Bitting 46.
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