Book ID: 114968
Fuchs, Leonhart
The New Herbal (Nieuw Kreüterbuch). 1545. (Reprint 2022). 500 col. figs. 680 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored copy, which has miraculously survived four-and-a-half centuries. Fascinating for historians of medicine and art, gardeners, and anyone interested in herbal medicine, the volume features over 500 splendid illustrations, and an essay exploring the history of healing herbs.
Accompanied by an extra volume by Klaus Dobat and Werner Dressendörfer entitled ' Leonhardt Fuchs, Physician and Pioneer of Modern Botany' .