Eicones plantarum, seu stirpium, arborum nempe, fructicum, herbarum, fructum, lignorum, radicum, omnis generis quae partim Germania sponte producit, 3 parts in one, Frankfurt: Nicolaus Basseus, 1590, woodcuts throughout, title-page chipped with loss to lower outer corner, old manuscript names of Tobias Faber and Thom. Reins[?] beneath, relaid and with armorial bookplate of Lorenz Heister (1683-1758, anatomist, surgeon and botanist) to verso, following two dedication leaves repaired at lower margin, several leaves with old ink pen or pencil marginalia, some spotting and browning with light brown stain to lower blank margin throughout, lacks leaves T2 and 2S6, 18th-century calf, rebacked and corners restored, oblong folio Jacobus Theodorus, called Tabernaemontanus (1525-1590), was a physician and an early botanist and herbalist, the 'father of German botany' whose illustrated 'Neuwe Kreuterbuch' (1588) or 'Eicones Plantarum' (1590) was the result of a lifetime's plant study and medical practice. It provided unacknowledged material for John Gerarde's better-known 'Herball' (1597) and was reprinted in Germany throughout the 17th century. Tabernaemontanus began as a student of the pioneer of Renaissance botany, Hieronymus Bock. Nissen BBI 1932; Pritzel 9094. (1)
Eicones plantarum, seu stirpium, arborum nempe, fructicum, herbarum, fructum, lignorum, radicum, omnis generis quae partim Germania sponte producit, 3 parts in one, Frankfurt: Nicolaus Basseus, 1590, woodcuts throughout, title-page chipped with loss to lower outer corner, old manuscript names of Tobias Faber and Thom. Reins[?] beneath, relaid and with armorial bookplate of Lorenz Heister (1683-1758, anatomist, surgeon and botanist) to verso, following two dedication leaves repaired at lower margin, several leaves with old ink pen or pencil marginalia, some spotting and browning with light brown stain to lower blank margin throughout, lacks leaves T2 and 2S6, 18th-century calf, rebacked and corners restored, oblong folio Jacobus Theodorus, called Tabernaemontanus (1525-1590), was a physician and an early botanist and herbalist, the 'father of German botany' whose illustrated 'Neuwe Kreuterbuch' (1588) or 'Eicones Plantarum' (1590) was the result of a lifetime's plant study and medical practice. It provided unacknowledged material for John Gerarde's better-known 'Herball' (1597) and was reprinted in Germany throughout the 17th century. Tabernaemontanus began as a student of the pioneer of Renaissance botany, Hieronymus Bock. Nissen BBI 1932; Pritzel 9094. (1)
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