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LONITZER, Adam (1528-1586). Kräuterbuch und Künstliche Conterfeyungen. Ulm: Daniel Bartolomae, 1703.
2° (302 x 191mm). Gothic letter. Title in red and black with woodcut printer's device, hand-coloured portrait, contemporary hand-coloured and over 1200 woodcut text illustrations comprising 5 tailpieces, 16 scenes of bucolic life, 984 relating to furnaces and plants, 255 depicting mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects, 53 depicting metals, minerals, corals, and precious stones, interleaved. (Some browning and spotting particularly in first and last leaves, lower corners of first few leaves and edges of last few leaves lightly worn, short tear into text Kkk5.) Contemporary blindstamped panelled pigskin with armorial device on upper and lower boards (extremities rubbed, some soiling, lower corner of upper board worn).
An extraordinary amalgam of scientific fact, anecdotal knowledge, tall stories, and medieval herbal tradition, Lonitzer's Kräuterbuch was immensely popular from its inception right through to the ninteenth century, as the notes on the interleaved leaves of this copy show. Each subsequent edition acquired more and more woodcuts, and this edition appears to be particularly well illustrated. By the publication of this edition, the work had moved from being primarily an herbal, although the section on plants dominates the work, to something significantly more ambitious. Its increasing and assured popularity was, no doubt, due in part to this attempt to present in a pictorially engaging way an ecclectic view of the known animal, vegetable, and mineral world. Wellcome III, p. 545; this edition not in the BM (Nat. Hist.), Nissen nor Pritzel.
2° (302 x 191mm). Gothic letter. Title in red and black with woodcut printer's device, hand-coloured portrait, contemporary hand-coloured and over 1200 woodcut text illustrations comprising 5 tailpieces, 16 scenes of bucolic life, 984 relating to furnaces and plants, 255 depicting mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects, 53 depicting metals, minerals, corals, and precious stones, interleaved. (Some browning and spotting particularly in first and last leaves, lower corners of first few leaves and edges of last few leaves lightly worn, short tear into text Kkk5.) Contemporary blindstamped panelled pigskin with armorial device on upper and lower boards (extremities rubbed, some soiling, lower corner of upper board worn).
An extraordinary amalgam of scientific fact, anecdotal knowledge, tall stories, and medieval herbal tradition, Lonitzer's Kräuterbuch was immensely popular from its inception right through to the ninteenth century, as the notes on the interleaved leaves of this copy show. Each subsequent edition acquired more and more woodcuts, and this edition appears to be particularly well illustrated. By the publication of this edition, the work had moved from being primarily an herbal, although the section on plants dominates the work, to something significantly more ambitious. Its increasing and assured popularity was, no doubt, due in part to this attempt to present in a pictorially engaging way an ecclectic view of the known animal, vegetable, and mineral world. Wellcome III, p. 545; this edition not in the BM (Nat. Hist.), Nissen nor Pritzel.