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FUCHS, Leonhard - Stirpium imagines. Portrait des plantes reduict en petites figures avec les nõs grecz, latins, allemãs, & frãçoys. Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1549, 12mo, later calf, blindruled borders with gilt central and corner elements, gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands, [24]-516-[4] pp. (waterstaining throughout, some staining). In all an acceptable copy.
Second and first illustrated Lyon ed. of the most famous herbal of the 16th c. by the German physician and botanist L. Fuchs (1501-1566). Profusely illustrated with a woodcut on title, an author's portrait and over 500 b/w botanical woodcuts (some of which handcoloured) commissioned from Clement Boussy by Arnoullet in 1547. Ms. annotations on almost every leaf. Bookpl. Comte Goblet d'Alviella . Ref. USTC 47094 = Pettegree FB 21975. Nissen 667. Pritzel 3138. Adams F-1102.