Fuchs, Leonhart. Den Nieuwen Herbarius, dat is,... Lot 21

Fuchs, Leonhart. Den Nieuwen Herbarius, dat is, dboeck vanden cruyden. Basel, Michael Isengrin, [ca. 1543]. In 2nd (292 x 185 mm); xviii, [260] papers. Typographic mark on title page and at end of volume, author's portrait by Veit Rudolph Speckle on verso of title page, 517 woodcut figures of plants in coeval coloring in text (defects and restorations to second and third papers with loss of text, tear to paper V1, slight halo mostly at end of volume). Modern imitation binding in sixteenth-century hazel-colored leather with embossed decoration to plates and spine. Complete specimen with beautiful coloring of this first Dutch edition, nicknamed the "KleinerFuchs." Heilmann 219: "Mit den neu geschnittenen Bildern des KleinenFuchsvon hervorragender Schönheit." SALEROOM NOTICE: The title page is from another copy