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New Kreüterbuch by Leonhart Fuchs Facsimile Edition

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Leonhart Fuchs's New Kreüterbuch is the first German edition of his landmark botanical work, printed by Michael Isingrin in Basel in 1543. Written for a vernacular readership, it describes plants' names, forms, habitats, growing seasons, and medicinal properties while grounding identification in close observation of nature. Its 517 botanical woodcuts, designed by Albrecht Meyer, transferred to the blocks by Heinrich Füllmaurer, and cut by Veit Rudolf Speckle, established an influential visual standard for Renaissance botanical publishing.

We have 2 facsimiles of the manuscript "New Kreüterbuch by Leonhart Fuchs":

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#1 New Kreüterbuch

Munich: Konrad Kölbl, 1964

  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, New Kreüterbuch by Leonhart Fuchs: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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Bound in quarter mock vellum.

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#2 New Kreüterbuch im Jar MDXLIII

Olten: Urs Graf, 1981-1985

  • Limited Edition: 490 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, New Kreüterbuch by Leonhart Fuchs: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The textual sections of the facsimile are reproduced from UBH Lo I 6, while the colored illustrations are reproduced from the Latin edition.

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