FUCHS, LEONARD

Historia de yerbas y plantas.

FUCHS, LEONARD.

Historia de yerbas y plantas. Translator: Juan de Jarava. Printer: Jean de Laet. Antwerp, 1557. 268 leaves (536 pages). Size: 17,5 x 12,5 cm. The front cover announces that included are "its lifelike painted figures". 520 illustrations.

The volume consists of an atlas of 520 illustrations of mainly Old World plants, with a few American ones. They are the most beautiful and exact xylographs of the whole botanic theme printed in XVI century Europe, since they are the famous ones of the work of Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium (1542), on each of which Jarava offers a brief comment in Spanish. Due to Fuchs being a protestant notary, the Spanish Inquisition forbid his name appearing on Jarava’s volume, which may be demonstrated on the copy reproduced which is kept in the Valencia History of Medicine Library.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1995. From the copy kept in the Biblioteca Histórico-Médica de la Universidad de Valencia.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish conducted by José María López Piñero (Professor of the History of Science, Director of the Institute of Documental and Historical Studies on science of the University of Valencia, CSIC). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua III.