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New Kreüterbuch
by Fuchs, Leonhard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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About This Item
Munich: Verlag Konrad Kölbl, 1964. [36], 354, numerous illustrations. . HB. 4to (277x196mm), orig. quarter mock vellum, vellum patterned paper to boards, raised bands, gt title to spine in cloth and paper covered card slipcase. Vg. ex libris J.R. Kirkup FRCS, with his inkstamp to front pastedown. Kirkup is a retired orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in the history of medicine.. Facsimile reprint of Leonhard Fuchs' 1543 herbal. Born in Wemding, Bavaria, in 1501, Fuchs was a physician and botanist, and a leading figure in the late German Renaissance. He is considered a founding father of modern botany and is remembered in the name of the flower and colour; fuschia. Containing over 500 botanical illustrations, the New Kreüterbuch represents a notable advance in accuracy in botanical illutrations. It also included some of the first descriptions of plant species from the new world, including maize, potatoes, and tobbacco..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S54180
- Title
- New Kreüterbuch
- Author
- Fuchs, Leonhard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Verlag Konrad Kölbl
- Place of Publication
- Munich
- Date Published
- 1964
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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