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TABERNAEMONTANUS, Jacobus Theodorus (1525-90). New Vollkommen Kräuter-Buch. Darinnen Uber 3000... TABERNAEMONTANUS, Jacobus Theodorus (1525-90). New Vollkommen Kräuter-Buch. Darinnen Uber 3000 Krauter mit Schönen und Kunstlichen Figuren. Basel: Jacob Werenfels in Verlegung Johann Königs, 1664. Folio (354 x 225mm). Additional elaborate engraved allegorical title, woodcut device on printed title, headpieces and initials, printed in double column, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations (engraved title and a few leaves detached, variable spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary calf, unusual patterned endpapers (very worn, joints split, some damp spots). Provenance: old illegible ownership inscriptions on engraved title; 19th-century manuscript arithmetic on front free endpaper calculating the age of the book from 1841. This work, upon which the author's reputation as the 'father of German botany' rests, was first published in Frankfurt in 1588 and went through many editions in the 17th-century. Brunet IV, 381 (citing a Frankfurt edition of 1613): "Les éditions de Francfort, 1625, et de Bâle, 1664 et 1685, in fol., ont à peu près la même valeur"; Nissen BBI 1931; Pritzel 9093. Sold not subject to return.