Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554) – German botanist, physician and Lutheran preacher
'Kreüter Buch. Darinn Underscheidt, Namen unnd Würckung der Kreütter, Stauden, Hecken und Beümen, sampt iren Früchten …'
Printed by Josias Rihel, Strasbourg, 1560
Fifth Strasbourg edition of the herbal that was first published without the text woodcuts in 1539
Colored armorial woodcut, woodcut portrait and ca. 570 woodcuts in the text, most by David Kandel in a fine old coloring
Copy with complete text, lacking only last leaf with printer's note
Blind-tooled, somewhat later pigskin binding over wooden boards with metal clasps
Dimensions of folio volume: 31 x 20 cm, width of spine: 7 cm
In genuine condition with complete text
Reference: VD 16, B 6019. - Index Aurel. 120.595. - Muller III, 508, 20. - Nissen 182. - Hunt 81. - Pritzel 866 Anmerkung
Increased early edition of one the 16th century's most famous herbal books

Complete title:

‚Kreüter Buch. Darinn Underscheidt, Namen unnd Würckung der Kreütter, Stauden, Hecken und Beümen, sampt iren Früchten, so inn Teutschen Landen wachsen. Von newem fleissig ubersehen, gebessert und gemehret.’

Collation:

Title, 19 unnumbered leaves with index and register, 413 numbered leaves, 5 unnumbered leaves with register, lacking last leaf with printer's note, printer's device mounted on last register leaf in former times; 4 blank leaves bound in at a later time, partly with old entries.

Condition:

In genuine condition. Title loosened and with old entries, stronger marginal losses and blemishes. Some leaves with marginal blemishes, splits and corner defects. Leaves 385 and 412 with rebacked splits in lower margin (with loss of printed matter). Foxed in places, water-stained and with finger- and brown-staining. With several annotations by old hand. Last pages slightly crease. Old coloring in fresh impression. Copy.

Binding:

Calf binding rubbed and scuffed, with few wormholes, edges and corners scuffed. Spine loosened, binding shaken, inner joints broken. The clasps are secondary.

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