FIERA, BAPTISTA. Coena de herbarum virtutibus... Columella de cultu Hortorum, Strassburg: Christian Egenolff, [c. 1530]. 8vo, 149 x 95 mm., vellum-backed boards, light marginal dampstaining. FIRST EDITION of this dialogue in verse on the virtues of herbs, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Adams F-437; Pritzel 2895 -- MACER FLORIDUS (or AEMILIUS), [pseud., ODO OF MEUNG?]. De Herbarum virtutibus, cum Ioannis Atrociani commentariis... Adhaec. Strabu Galli... Hortulus uernantissimus. Freiburg im Bresgau: (hannes feber Emmeus Juliacensis, 1530). 8vo, 150 x 100 mm., modern half vellum. Italic type, space for opening initial with guide letter. Adams O-62; NLM/Durling 2892. Second edition with the commentary by Joannes Atrocianus -- [Another edition]. Macer Floribus de viribus herbarum... quae... recensuit... Ludovicus Choulant. Leipzig, 1832. vo, boards, title-leaf chipped and torn along gutter, some browning. Edward Sandford Burgess, bookplate -- SCHNELLENBERG, TARQUINIUS. Experimenta. Von XX Pestlielnz Wurtzeln und Kreutern... Frankfurt: Georg Raben and heirs of Weygand Hanen, 1563. 8vo, half vellum, some soiling and discoloration. Fifth(?) edition, 21 woodcuts after Brunfels. Cf. Nissen BBI 1786 and Pritzel 8298. Together 4 vols., 8vo, bookplates of Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York.

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FIERA, BAPTISTA. Coena de herbarum virtutibus... Columella de cultu Hortorum, Strassburg: Christian Egenolff, [c. 1530]. 8vo, 149 x 95 mm., vellum-backed boards, light marginal dampstaining. FIRST EDITION of this dialogue in verse on the virtues of herbs, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Adams F-437; Pritzel 2895 -- MACER FLORIDUS (or AEMILIUS), [pseud., ODO OF MEUNG?]. De Herbarum virtutibus, cum Ioannis Atrociani commentariis... Adhaec. Strabu Galli... Hortulus uernantissimus. Freiburg im Bresgau: (hannes feber Emmeus Juliacensis, 1530). 8vo, 150 x 100 mm., modern half vellum. Italic type, space for opening initial with guide letter. Adams O-62; NLM/Durling 2892. Second edition with the commentary by Joannes Atrocianus -- [Another edition]. Macer Floribus de viribus herbarum... quae... recensuit... Ludovicus Choulant. Leipzig, 1832. vo, boards, title-leaf chipped and torn along gutter, some browning. Edward Sandford Burgess, bookplate -- SCHNELLENBERG, TARQUINIUS. Experimenta. Von XX Pestlielnz Wurtzeln und Kreutern... Frankfurt: Georg Raben and heirs of Weygand Hanen, 1563. 8vo, half vellum, some soiling and discoloration. Fifth(?) edition, 21 woodcuts after Brunfels. Cf. Nissen BBI 1786 and Pritzel 8298. Together 4 vols., 8vo, bookplates of Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York.

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