J. BELON TRANSLATION
FUCHS, LEONHART. Histoire des Plantes de M. Leonhart Fuschsius, avec les nomsGrecs, Latins & Fracoys, augmentée de plusieurs portraicts avec unng extratit de leurs vertuz... Paris: Arnold Byrkman, 1549
8vo (165 x 101 mm). Bound in 17th century vellum with period endpapers. viii [16], 1-520 p. (p.387/388 supplied in facsimile). Includes 519 woodblock prints. Small circular institutional stamp (Maison de Poesis Fondation Blemont) on title page and several other pages, ca. 3 more. All 517 woodcuts have images with early coloring, many of the roots left uncolored. The plants depicted on facsimile pages in modern color. Text and plates generally good with occasional foxing spot. There was some tight trimming when the book was rebound that shaves close to text at the fore edge of several pages without apparent loss.
This is a very rare copy made even more so with contemporary coloring of woodblock images. Three plants (517,518,519) not depicted in any of the Basel editions. This is the only 8vo illustrated edition with a French translation with format of "three additional plants andmuch-abridged text (placed in the margins next to the figures) dealing with the medicinal properties (extraict de leurs vertuz) of the plants." (Meyer)(Nissen, 665)
$US20000
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