FUCHS, LEONHARD. Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes. Translated from Latin by Eloy de Maignan. Paris: Jacques Gazeau, 1549. Folio, 325 x 205mm, contemporary French panelled calf, gilt corner ornament and central arabesque medallion, restored and rebacked, some small worm-tracking, mostly marginal but occasionally touching a few letters, without final blank Z8 . Printer's device on title, 509 woodcut botanical illustrations, woodcut historiated initials from several sets, including one large criblé initial. Hunt 60; Nissen BBI 663. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Fuchs's De historia stirpium . The woodcuts are those used in the octavo Basel editions of 1545, which B.C. Callery considered "more vigorous" than the fine-lined full-page cuts (Rosenwald 89). Provenance : Guiot, early 17th-century inscription -- J. Gangier(?) early 17th-century inscription -- Robert de Belder.
FUCHS, LEONHARD. Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes. Translated from Latin by Eloy de Maignan. Paris: Jacques Gazeau, 1549. Folio, 325 x 205mm, contemporary French panelled calf, gilt corner ornament and central arabesque medallion, restored and rebacked, some small worm-tracking, mostly marginal but occasionally touching a few letters, without final blank Z8 . Printer's device on title, 509 woodcut botanical illustrations, woodcut historiated initials from several sets, including one large criblé initial. Hunt 60; Nissen BBI 663. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Fuchs's De historia stirpium . The woodcuts are those used in the octavo Basel editions of 1545, which B.C. Callery considered "more vigorous" than the fine-lined full-page cuts (Rosenwald 89). Provenance : Guiot, early 17th-century inscription -- J. Gangier(?) early 17th-century inscription -- Robert de Belder.
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