‘The most beautiful herbal’

A copy of the 1543, first German language edition of a work that centuries later, in 'Printing and the Mind of Man', was declared to be “perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published” was offered by Gloucestershire saleroom Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on October 12.

Printed in Basel and preceded only by a 1542, Latin text edition, Leonhart Fuchs’ Neu Kreüterbuch

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