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FUCHS, LEONHARD. Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes. Translated from Latin by Eloy de Maignan. Paris: Jacques Gazeau, 1549. Folio, 325 x 205mm, contemporary French panelled calf, gilt corner ornament and central arabesque medallion, restored and rebacked, some small worm-tracking, mostly marginal but occasionally touching a few letters, without final blank Z8. Printer's device on title, 509 woodcut botanical illustrations, woodcut historiated initials from several sets, including one large criblé initial. Hunt 60; Nissen BBI 663.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Fuchs's De historia stirpium. The woodcuts are those used in the octavo Basel editions of 1545, which B.C. Callery considered "more vigorous" than the fine-lined full-page cuts (Rosenwald 89).
Provenance: Guiot, early 17th-century inscription -- J. Gangier(?) early 17th-century inscription -- Robert de Belder.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Fuchs's De historia stirpium. The woodcuts are those used in the octavo Basel editions of 1545, which B.C. Callery considered "more vigorous" than the fine-lined full-page cuts (Rosenwald 89).
Provenance: Guiot, early 17th-century inscription -- J. Gangier(?) early 17th-century inscription -- Robert de Belder.