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THURNEISSER ZUM THURN, Leonhard (1531-1596). Historia sive Descriptio Plantarum Omnium. Berlin: Michael Hentzske, March 1578.
2° (360 x 240mm.). Printed in Latin, with some Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, in a wide variety of Roman and Italic typefaces. Elaborate woodcut title, woodcut portraits of the author and a deity in elaborate frames, 36 woodcuts of plants, astrological diagrams, numerous small woodcuts throughout of apparatus, animals, human figures, allegorical woodcut device on colophon leaf. (Some browning and slight waterstaining, a few inner margins skilfully renewed.) 17th- or 18th-century vellum (spine strengthened with a later vellum strip). Provenance: ARPAD PLESCH (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 16 March 1976 lot 754 sold (420); Theodore Besterman (E. P. Goldschmidt cataloguing note.)
FIRST EDITION of a work on the astrological governance of plants with ribbed flower heads (Umbellifers), by a leading 16th-century exponent of the astrological school of medical botany. The work was first published in Latin, followed by a German edition in the same year. Originally ten volumes were planned, but only this one appeared. The work was published while Thurneisser was physician to the Elector of Brandenbourg in Berlin, where, in 1574, he established his own printing press. He personally supervised the printing of many of his writings until 1577, when he sold the workshop to Michael Hentzke, who published this work. Henztke continued to employ Thurneisser's blockcutter, Peter Hille, who executed the title-page for the Historia and was probably responsible for most of the other woodcuts in the book. (The title is signed with the monogram 'PH', misread by the Hunt cataloguer as 'PF'.) Nissen BBI 1963; Adams T-690; cf. Hunt 135.
2° (360 x 240mm.). Printed in Latin, with some Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, in a wide variety of Roman and Italic typefaces. Elaborate woodcut title, woodcut portraits of the author and a deity in elaborate frames, 36 woodcuts of plants, astrological diagrams, numerous small woodcuts throughout of apparatus, animals, human figures, allegorical woodcut device on colophon leaf. (Some browning and slight waterstaining, a few inner margins skilfully renewed.) 17th- or 18th-century vellum (spine strengthened with a later vellum strip). Provenance: ARPAD PLESCH (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 16 March 1976 lot 754 sold (420); Theodore Besterman (E. P. Goldschmidt cataloguing note.)
FIRST EDITION of a work on the astrological governance of plants with ribbed flower heads (Umbellifers), by a leading 16th-century exponent of the astrological school of medical botany. The work was first published in Latin, followed by a German edition in the same year. Originally ten volumes were planned, but only this one appeared. The work was published while Thurneisser was physician to the Elector of Brandenbourg in Berlin, where, in 1574, he established his own printing press. He personally supervised the printing of many of his writings until 1577, when he sold the workshop to Michael Hentzke, who published this work. Henztke continued to employ Thurneisser's blockcutter, Peter Hille, who executed the title-page for the Historia and was probably responsible for most of the other woodcuts in the book. (The title is signed with the monogram 'PH', misread by the Hunt cataloguer as 'PF'.) Nissen BBI 1963; Adams T-690; cf. Hunt 135.