BRUNFELS, OTTO. Contrafayt Kreüterbuch, nach rechter vollkommener art, unud [ sic ] Beschreibungen der Alten besst-beruempten aertzt, vormals in Teütscher sprach, der masszen nye gesehen, noch im Truck auszgangen. [Part 2:] Ander Teyl des Teütsch en Contrafayten Kreüterbuchs [edited by Michael Herr]. Strassburg: Johann Schott 1532-37. 2 parts in one, folio, 314 x 205 mm. (12 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.), contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, brass catchplates and one brass clasp remaining, worn, a few wormholes to covers, apparently lacking fols. A2 and A3 in part 2 (with A1.6 misfolded and p. viii mispaginated "xii"), worming to second half of part 2, mostly marginal worming elsewhere, large tear to 1:T4 through text and woodcuts, 5-inch tear to 1:O6 catching woodcut caption, corner of 2:K1 torn, short marginal tears to a dozen leaves, printing flaw to S5v, soiling, foxing and some dampstaining and softening, most severe in part 2 . Collation: a-c6 A-G6 H6 (H4 + 1) I-Dd6 Ee-Gg4; 2 A6 (-A2 and A3) B-N6 O4 P6. 281 (of 283?) leaves (part 2, quire "A" leaves bound in the order A5, A6, A1, A4), with Gg4 blank and inserted cancel leaf H4+1 in part 1, correcting the woodcut on p. 92, incorrectly repeated from p. 90. Full-page woodcut arms of Strassburg on c6v (part 1), 277 woodcuts of plants (the figure on 2:Cc1r erroneously omitted, and including 4 repeats) by Hans Weiditz (part 1) and other artists (part 2), most full-page, including 84 cuts not previously published, 2 full-page woodcuts of farm and forest scenes in part 2, historiated woodcut initials, the woodcuts and one initial crudely colored by a contemporary hand. Nissen BBI 258 I and II (citing pagination as [32] 332 [16]; [4] 173 [2] pp.); Stafleu TL-2 855. First German edition of the 3-part The Herbarum vivae eicones (Strassburg 1530-32-36), the first botanical book to contain realistic and accurate illustrations of plants. Brunfels has been called the "first great mind in modern botany" (Hunt), but this honor is due less to his still traditional text than to his choice of illustrator and his insistence that the illustrations be "living portraits of plants". Weiditz's woodcuts were taken from watercolors drawn directly from nature (77 of which are preserved in the Platter Herbarium in Bern). "The plants were keenly observed and drawn with a vigorous realism that sometimes went beyond the needs of botany. If a plant had a broken stem or a worm-eaten leaf, that was the way it was shown. Except for an occasional excess, Weiditz had a superb grasp of plant structure" (Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals , New York 1977, p. 122). Provenance : Scattered contemporary and later marginalia, a few in red ink -- "Soc(ieta)tis Jesu Milles Faturin(?) Catalogo incriptus 1692", inscription on title.
BRUNFELS, OTTO. Contrafayt Kreüterbuch, nach rechter vollkommener art, unud [ sic ] Beschreibungen der Alten besst-beruempten aertzt, vormals in Teütscher sprach, der masszen nye gesehen, noch im Truck auszgangen. [Part 2:] Ander Teyl des Teütsch en Contrafayten Kreüterbuchs [edited by Michael Herr]. Strassburg: Johann Schott 1532-37. 2 parts in one, folio, 314 x 205 mm. (12 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.), contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, brass catchplates and one brass clasp remaining, worn, a few wormholes to covers, apparently lacking fols. A2 and A3 in part 2 (with A1.6 misfolded and p. viii mispaginated "xii"), worming to second half of part 2, mostly marginal worming elsewhere, large tear to 1:T4 through text and woodcuts, 5-inch tear to 1:O6 catching woodcut caption, corner of 2:K1 torn, short marginal tears to a dozen leaves, printing flaw to S5v, soiling, foxing and some dampstaining and softening, most severe in part 2 . Collation: a-c6 A-G6 H6 (H4 + 1) I-Dd6 Ee-Gg4; 2 A6 (-A2 and A3) B-N6 O4 P6. 281 (of 283?) leaves (part 2, quire "A" leaves bound in the order A5, A6, A1, A4), with Gg4 blank and inserted cancel leaf H4+1 in part 1, correcting the woodcut on p. 92, incorrectly repeated from p. 90. Full-page woodcut arms of Strassburg on c6v (part 1), 277 woodcuts of plants (the figure on 2:Cc1r erroneously omitted, and including 4 repeats) by Hans Weiditz (part 1) and other artists (part 2), most full-page, including 84 cuts not previously published, 2 full-page woodcuts of farm and forest scenes in part 2, historiated woodcut initials, the woodcuts and one initial crudely colored by a contemporary hand. Nissen BBI 258 I and II (citing pagination as [32] 332 [16]; [4] 173 [2] pp.); Stafleu TL-2 855. First German edition of the 3-part The Herbarum vivae eicones (Strassburg 1530-32-36), the first botanical book to contain realistic and accurate illustrations of plants. Brunfels has been called the "first great mind in modern botany" (Hunt), but this honor is due less to his still traditional text than to his choice of illustrator and his insistence that the illustrations be "living portraits of plants". Weiditz's woodcuts were taken from watercolors drawn directly from nature (77 of which are preserved in the Platter Herbarium in Bern). "The plants were keenly observed and drawn with a vigorous realism that sometimes went beyond the needs of botany. If a plant had a broken stem or a worm-eaten leaf, that was the way it was shown. Except for an occasional excess, Weiditz had a superb grasp of plant structure" (Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals , New York 1977, p. 122). Provenance : Scattered contemporary and later marginalia, a few in red ink -- "Soc(ieta)tis Jesu Milles Faturin(?) Catalogo incriptus 1692", inscription on title.
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