Stock #: ST11326           $1800
PJP Catalog 57.103

     (LEAF BOOK - HERBALS EARLY IMPRINTS).
A COLLECTION OF 16 LEAVES FROM PRINTED HERBALS FOUR OF THEM INCUNABULAR. (Dates range from  1485-1777)   The leaves of varying sizes uniformly matted to fit neatly into a portfolio measuring 480 x 350 mm. (19 x 13 3/4"). Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper followed by the leaves the contents leaf with colored botanical illustration at top.       Leaves in uniform mats with printed explanatory paper label and contained in a handsome linen portfolio with large paper label on front cover.    Nine of the leaves with contemporary hand coloring.       With the usual imperfections associated with early herbal leaves: some browning smudging and foxing but no serious defects and most leaves in excellent condition the group as a whole quite good and certainly appealing.

This set includes leaves from two different 1485 editions and a 1486/87 printing of GART DER GESUNTHEIT (Mainz: Peter Schöffer 1485; Augsburg: Hans Schönsperger 1485; and Basel: Michael Furter 1486/87); and leaves from two different editions of ORTUS SANITATIS (Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach 1491 and Paris: Antoine Vérard 1500). In addition there are nine 16th century leaves one each from the HERBARI ODER KREÜTERBUCH; the HERBOLARIO VOLGARE; the CONTRAFAYT KREÜTERBUCH of OTTO BRUNFELS; an edition of ORTUS SANITATIS from 1538; DE HISTORIA STIRPIUM of LEONHART FUCHS; his NEW KREÜTERBUCH; the KREUTTERBUCH of EUCHARIUS ROSSELIN; the NEW KREÜTERBUCH of HIERONYMUS BOCK; and the KREUTTERBUCH of PIER ANDREA MATTIOLI. Finally there is a 1610 printing of the KRÄUTERBUCH of DIOSCORIDES and a really lovely leaf from the ANLEITUNG ZU DER PFLANZENKENNTNIS of SALOMON SCHINZ.