New vollkommenlich Kräuter-Buch

Author: Tabernaemontanus

Publisher: König, Johann

Published: Basel

Publishing year: 1664

Tabernaemontanus (i. e. Jacobus Theodorus; 1522-1590); Bauhin, Johann Caspar (1606-1685); Bauhin, Hieronymus (1637-1667). Herbarium. "New vollkommenlich Kräuter-Buch mit schönen und künstlichen Figuren aller Gewächs ... / beschrieben durch Jacobum Theodorum Tabernaemontanum ... Vormahls ... verbessert durch Casparum Bauhinum ... Jetzt ... vermehret durch Hieronymum Bauhinum ... New und vollkommen Kräuter-Buch ... Das ander und dritte Theil". Basilej: König, 1664. Three parts in ove volume. Folio. Coloured woodcut title page, (7) leaves, 663 pp. (i. e.  1. part), (2) leaves, pp. 665-1529 (i. e. 2. and 3. part), (66) leaves i. e. eleven-language index, including English). With ca. 3000 woodcut illustrations in the text - all old coloured (!). Full leather binding from the 18th century.

Jacobus Theodorus, called Tabernaemontanus ("Jacob Dietrich of Bergzabern"; c. 1522 in Bergzabern, Latin Tabrnae Montane - 1590 in Heidelberg), was a German physician, pharmacist, professor of medicine and botany, and author of one of the most widely used German herbarium. His encyclopedic Kreuterbuch was an attempt at a universal survey of the known flora of Europe. The illustrations by an unknown engraver are based on woodcuts published in the works of Mattioli, Dodoens, Clusius and de Lobel. - Johann Caspar Bauhin, 1560-1624 and Hieronymus Bauhin, 1637-1667 (father and son, both Basel physicians) expanded Tabernaemontan's herbarium considerably. - Engraved title page fully taped, continuously slightly browned, otherwise still very well preserved.

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Tags: Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus, Bauhin, Herbarium, New vollkommenlich Kräuter-Buch, Basel, König, 1664