FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)

Лот 144
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1514434
Лот 144 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)
New Kreuterbuch. Basel: MicNew Kreuterbuch. Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543.
Coloured copy of the first edition in German of 'perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published' (PMM). Fuchs's herbal represents a significant advance in medical botany. He combined a scientific and medical approach, enhancing its utility by his detailed plant-portraits. He is recognised as one of the three fathers of botany.

Fuchs prepared editions almost simultaneously in Latin (1542) and German (1543) in order to appeal to both a Latinate, scholarly and scientific audience across European and a lay audience interested in herbal applications and remedies or simply in the natural world. The German edition is augmented with an index of illnesses treatable with herbal remedies and 5 additional woodcut, thereby further enhancing the work's popular appeal and utility. The illustrations depict over 400 German and 100 foreign plants, including the first description of several recently-discovered American plants, such as maize, pumpkin, and chili pepper. The drawings were made from life by Albert Meyer, largely based on plants in Fuchs's garden at Tubingen, then transferred to the woodblock by Heinrich Fullmaurer, and cut into wood by Viet Rudolph Speckle. Portraits of the three artists are included in the work - one of the earliest such honours accorded to contributing artists. The woodcuts new to the German edition depict 'Hunerbis', 'Spitziger Wegerich', 'klein Schlangen kraut', 'Knabenkrautweible, das mittel', and 'Kuchens chell'. Adams F-1107; Cleveland Collections 62; Nissen BBI 659; Pritzel 3139; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1910; VD16 F 3243.

Folio (365 x 237mm). Full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fullmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists on BB7 (misbound before a1), all cuts coloured by an early hand, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes (lacking final leaf with printer's device, title and a few other preliminary leaves on guard, title reinforced on verso at lower and outer margin, artist portrait page lightly defective and repaired with minor loss, c.12 woodcuts defective, repaired minor tears without loss in c.20 leaves, some bleed-through in a c.20 leaves, occasional stain, dampstain or spotting, dampstain at lower corner of first several quires with occasional repair, green paint spilled at gutter of quires N-M and smudged in R). 18th-century calf, red edges (somewhat worn). Provenance: Jerome Langmaister (inscription below author portrait recording his purchase of the book in 1556 for 4 thaler) – occasional early annotations -- Eberhardine Comtesse de Ötting 1674’ (faded title inscription) – ‘Jos: v Helmerich Zugehörig dem Stadtphysicus, 6 Marz 1792’ – Latin plant names added in an 18th-century hand – Albert J. Chalmers (1870-1920; armorial bookplate; presented by his widow in 1922 to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (pictorial bookplate recording the Chalmers gift; stamp on flyleaf).
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