De historia stirpium commentarij insignes. Adiectis earundem vivis, & ad naturae imitatione artificiose expressis imaginibus.

8vo : [30]-[2 bl.]-851-[12] pp. (some min. browning and staining, waterstaining in the upper margins near the end of the vol., first 2 quires sl. loosening).

Cont. blindst. calf over wood, roll-stamps on covers (clasps and catches gone), blindst. spine on 3 raised bands (head repaired). Good copy.

Lyon ed. (reprint of the 1549 ed.) and attractive handy format for this famous herbarium by Fuchs. Illustrated with Arnoullet's sea-horse device on title, a woodcut portrait of the author and over 500 miniature botanical woodcuts of plants with their names in Greek, Latin, German and French. The ills are reduced versions of the woodcuts in the folio ed. publ. by Isingrin in Basel which were commissioned from Clément Boussy by Arnoullet in 1547 and first appeared in his 1549 Lyon ed. Largely annotated copy with besides notes in the margins and on the endpapers and flylvs, an extensive "Index Germanicarum appellationum" at the end. Ref. Pettegree FB 21977 = USTC 79602. - Nissen 667. - Adams F-1103. Prov. Bookpl. (?) pasted on verso of title. - Ownership crossed out on title.