Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1501-1577), Bernhard Verzascha (1627-1680), and Theodor Zwinger III (1658-1724) Theatrum Botanicum, Das ist Neu-Vollkomenes Krauter-Buch. Basel: Jacob Bertsche, 1696. Folio, first edition with Zwinger's additions, lacking text leaf C2, page 19/20, and final index pages, i.e., all after 6Q3; 995 pages; with engraved title; typographical title printed in red and black, illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts of plants, German text printed in double columns throughout, bound in full later parchment over stiff boards; both titles mounted, some discoloration and spotting to contents, parchment covering peeling away, browning to text leaves, 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Zwinger, building on the work of his predecessors, enriched the text with the inclusion of descriptions and woodcuts of more than one hundred additional plants.
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1501-1577), Bernhard Verzascha (1627-1680), and Theodor Zwinger III (1658-1724) Theatrum Botanicum, Das ist Neu-Vollkomenes Krauter-Buch. Basel: Jacob Bertsche, 1696. Folio, first edition with Zwinger's additions, lacking text leaf C2, page 19/20, and final index pages, i.e., all after 6Q3; 995 pages; with engraved title; typographical title printed in red and black, illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts of plants, German text printed in double columns throughout, bound in full later parchment over stiff boards; both titles mounted, some discoloration and spotting to contents, parchment covering peeling away, browning to text leaves, 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Zwinger, building on the work of his predecessors, enriched the text with the inclusion of descriptions and woodcuts of more than one hundred additional plants.
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