Ortus Sanitatis. [Qui continet:]
De Lapidibus & in terre venis nascentibus.
Printed by Johann Prüss in about 1499. —More than
half the book—about four hundred pages—is filled with
the treatise on herbs and plants, each with an
accompanying woodcut. The other sections are similarly
illustrated, except, fortunately, for the section on
urine.
A
1497 edition, with hand-colored initials.
Plantarum effigies, è Leonartho Fuschio, ac quinque diversis linguis reddita. —A book of pictures of plants, each labeled in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and German. A Lyon, Chez Balthazar Arnoullet.
A
Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes:
wherein is contayned the whole discourse and perfect
description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their
diuers and sundry kindes: their straunge Figures,
Fashions, and Shapes: their Names, Natures,
Operations, and Vertues: and that not onely of those
whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of
Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes,
commonly used in physicke. First set foorth in the
Doutche or Almaigne tongu,/by that learned D. Rembert
Dodoens, Physition to the Emperour: and now first
translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte,
Esquyer. At London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in
Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.
—With very accurate illustrations. The number of
surviving copies suggests that this book amply repaid
Mr. Dewes’ investment in printing this luxurious
blackletter folio.
Another
copy.
Another
copy.
Another
copy.
Herbario nuovo di Castore Durante Medico & Cittadino Romano. Con figure che rappresentano le vive Piante, che nascono in tutta Europa, & nell’Indie Orientali, & Occidentali. In Roma ,Appresso Bartholomeo Bonfadino, & Tito Diani, 1585. —With excellent illustrations.
Eicones plantarum, seu stirpium, arborum nempe, fructicum, herbarum, fructuum, lignorum, radicum, omnis generis; tam inquilinorum, quam exoticorum: quae partim Germania sponte producit: partim ab exteris regionibus allata, in Germania plantantur: in gratiam medicinae reique herbariae studiosorum, in tres partes digestae. Adiecto INDICE gemino locupletissimo. Curante Nicolao Bassaeo, Typographo Francofurtensi. Francofurti ad Moenum, 1590. —More than 1100 pages of fine and very accurate illustrations of various wild and garden plants.
Icones Stirpium, seu Plantarum tam exoticarum quam indigenarum, in gratiam rei herbariae studiosorum in duas partes digestae. Cum septem linguarum Indicibus, ad diversarum nationum usum. Antuerpiae: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam et Ioannem Moretum. 1591. —Nearly 1300 pages of exceptionally fine illustrations of native and exotic plants.
Ioyfull
Newes Out of the New-Found Worlde.
Wherein are declared, the rare and singuler vertues of
divers herbs, trees, plantes, oyles and stones, with
their applications, as well to the use of phisicke, as
of chirurgery: which being well applyed, bring such
present remedie for all diseases, as may seeme
altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practice
found out to be true. Also the portrature of the said
hearbs, verie aptly described: Englished by John
Frampton Marchant. Newly corrected as by conference
with the olde copies may appeare. Whereunto are added
three other bookes treating of the Bezaar stone, the
herb Escuerconera, the properties of iron and steele
in medicine, and the benefit of snow. London, Printed
by E. Alde, by the assigne of Bonham Norton. 1596.
—The original work is credited by the librarian to
Nicolás Monardes. As a primarily medical treatise,
this is printed in blackletter, which was the rule for
English medical works at the time.
Another
copy.
The
Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes.
Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in
Chirurgerie. Imprinted at London by Iohn Norton, 1597.
—Nearly 1400 pages of engravings and descriptions,
followed by a very copious index of Latin names and
other references.
Another
copy.
Another
copy.
Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum; id est E. Blackwell Collectio Stirpium quae in pharmacopoliis ad medicum usum asservantur, quarum descriptio et vires ex Anglico idiomate in Latinum conversae sistuntur, figurae maximam partem ad naturale exemplar emendantur… Norimbergae: Typis Io. Iosephi Fleishmanni. 1750. —Beautiful colored illustrations; unfortunately we have not found the second century.
Centuria II.
Centuria V ultima.