Magnificent color plate books and early herbals
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Bologna: Haeredes de Duccijs, 1666. Folio (313 x 208 mm). [14], 576, [72] pp., including two blanks, allegorical engraved frontispiece by Lauren Tineus showing a large garden, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, woodcut headpiece and 36 mostly full-page woodcut illustrations of plants in text. Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered in..... More
Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 1519. 28 August 1519. Folio (305 x 200 mm). 330 leaves, Roman numbering. Black letter in two columns, title with full-page woodcut, 145 woodcut text illustration, of which one double-page, woodcut initials. Signatures: A-Z6; Aa-Zz6; a-i6. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, spine with..... More
Frankfurt am Main: H. Gülfferich, 1551. Folio (293 x 185 mm). [22], 199, [1] leaves. Title printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, large woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations in text (several full page); final leaf verso with printer's full-page armorial vignette. Signatures: A-B4 C6 D-E4, A-Z6 Aa-Ii6 Kk8..... More
Paris: De Bure l'Aîné, 1742. Two parts in one volume. 4to (289 x 220 mm). [8], 1-230, [4], 231-491 [1] pp. Title printed in red and black, engraved and hand-colored allegorical frontispiece by Chedel after Boucher and 32 engraved plates, all in fine contemporary hand-coloring, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Without..... More
Antwerp: Jan van der Loe, 1554. Folio (313 x 198 mm). Six parts in one volume. 40], CCCCCCCCXVIII (i.e., 816), [20] pp. Bound without final two blanks. Several mispaginations. Title with elaborate woodcut border by A. Nicolai after P. van der Borcht, half-page woodcut portrait of Rembert Dodoens (at the..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolph, 1540. DORSTEN, Theoderic. Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque simplicium, quorum usus in Medicinis est, descriptiones, & iconas ad vivum Effigiatas; ex praecipuis tam Grecis quàm Latinis Authoribus iam recens concinnatum. Additis etiam, quae Neotericorum observationes & experientiae vel comprobarunt denuo, uel nuper invenerunt. . . Frankfurt..... More
Nürnberg & Paris: Keller & Chez la veuve de Chretien de Launoy, 1770. 3 parts in one volume. Large folio (414 x 258 mm). [8], 76, 48, [8], 24 pp. With a preface by Casmir Christoph Schmidel, 51 hand-colored engraved plates by J.C. Keller (including 10 in the supplement/part III)..... More
Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1533. Physica S. Hildegardis. Elementorum, Fluminum aliquot Germaniae, Metallorum, Leguminum, Fructuum, & Herbarum : Arborum, & Arbustorum: deniq[ue], Volatilium, & Animantium terrae naturas & operationes. IIII. libris mirabili experientia posteritati tradens. Oribasii, Medici, de Simplicibus Libri Quinque. Theodori physici Dieta, docens quibusnam salubriter utendum, uel abstinendum. Esculapii..... More
Paris: Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande, N.Maze, and Gide Fils, 1815. 1815-1825. 7 volumes (all published). Elephant Folio (530 x 345 mm). Half-title and general title to each volume, section titles to volumes I and VII, dedication to Nicolaus Jacquin, 714 engraved plates by Turpin, all but two (3 and 96) with find..... More
Nürnberg: Knorrs Erben, 1776. Six parts in two volumes. 4to (252 x 204 mm). Text volume: [5] 6-127 [1], [3] 126-240, [5] 6-52, [5] 6-48 [14], [3] 4-46, [3] 4-76, [1] 2-18, [3] 4-7 [1]. Separate title pages to each part: part 1 dated 1776, part 2 dated 1784, part..... More
Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. 30 October 1475. Folio (285 x 210 mm). 263 (of 294) unnumbered leaves, including two final blanks, but lacking 31 text leaves (f.1-15, 24-26, 34-35, 129-136, 153, 287-288 including entire gatherings b and p). With 9 (of 12) full-page woodcut illustrations, all in original hand-color, each..... More
Mainz: Jacob Mydenbach, 1491. 23 June 1491. Chancery Folio (285 x 197 mm). 441 (of 454) unnumbered leaves, lacking the first printed leaf A1 and the final two gatherings 2D-2E of the index including colophon (11 unillustrated text leaves and final blank). Text in two columns; spaces left blank for..... More
Copenhagen: Typis N. Mulleri (vol. I-III), N. Christensen (vol. IV), 1788. 1788-1806. 4 parts bound in two volumes. Folio (376 x 232 mm). [2], v [1], 52; [4], 56; [4], 71 [1]; [6], 46 pp. 40 plates to each part numbered I-CLX. Each title with large engraved vignette. In total..... More
Nürnberg: Fleischmann für den Verfasser, 1746. Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung, erster (-vierter) Theil. Nürnberg: Fleischmann für den Verfasser, 1746-1761. 4 parts in 4 volumes. 4to (207 x 172 mm). 3 hand-coloured engraved additional titles (as called for in vols. I-III), engraved portrait of the author in vol. IV, and a total..... More
