Bock (Hieronymus) De Stirpium Commentariorum Libri Tres, first Latin edition, woodcut portrait and 568 illustrations by David Kandel, ornamental initials, printer's device at end, title with 2 areas of loss affecting text, neatly repaired with text in manuscript, repaired tear on N6, 2 marginal tears (A6 & S2), heavily annotated and underlined in various early hands, small worm damage at end (not affecting text), occasional soiling, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine with raised bands, remnants of clasps, rubbed, several small worm-holes, 4to, [Hunt 66; Nissen 183; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 576], Strassburg, Wendel Rihel, 1552. ⁂ The most fully illustrated edition of Bock's foundational text. Bock, along with Leonhart Fuchs and Otto Brunfels is considered one of the three German fathers of modern botany. Brunfels urged Bock to write this work after the latter had made such significant contributions to Brunfels own work. Bock states in the introduction, his aim was to provide a systematic way of describing plants based on visual observation. This laid the groundwork for later systems of classification. Provenance: "ex Bibliotheca Fischeriana" and a dedication by C. A. Schmid "Collegio Carlini Professor Brunsvic 1785" to Io. Fred. Poij, Archiatra di Karolina, Princess of Orange-Nassau (1743-1787).
Bock (Hieronymus) De Stirpium Commentariorum Libri Tres, first Latin edition, woodcut portrait and 568 illustrations by David Kandel, ornamental initials, printer's device at end, title with 2 areas of loss affecting text, neatly repaired with text in manuscript, repaired tear on N6, 2 marginal tears (A6 & S2), heavily annotated and underlined in various early hands, small worm damage at end (not affecting text), occasional soiling, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine with raised bands, remnants of clasps, rubbed, several small worm-holes, 4to, [Hunt 66; Nissen 183; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 576], Strassburg, Wendel Rihel, 1552. ⁂ The most fully illustrated edition of Bock's foundational text. Bock, along with Leonhart Fuchs and Otto Brunfels is considered one of the three German fathers of modern botany. Brunfels urged Bock to write this work after the latter had made such significant contributions to Brunfels own work. Bock states in the introduction, his aim was to provide a systematic way of describing plants based on visual observation. This laid the groundwork for later systems of classification. Provenance: "ex Bibliotheca Fischeriana" and a dedication by C. A. Schmid "Collegio Carlini Professor Brunsvic 1785" to Io. Fred. Poij, Archiatra di Karolina, Princess of Orange-Nassau (1743-1787).
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