LEAF BOOK - HERBALS EARLY IMPRINTS).

A COLLECTION OF 16 LEAVES FROM PRINTED HERBALS FOUR OF THEM INCUNABULAR.

      Dates range from 1485-1777 - Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper followed by the leaves the contents leaf with colored botanical illustration at top. All in uniform 19 x 13 3/4 mats with printed explanatory paper label and contained in a handsome linen portfolio with large paper label on front cover. Nine of the leaves with contemporary hand coloring. With the usual imperfections associated with early herbal leaves: some browning smudging and foxing but no serious defects and most leaves in excellent condition the group as a whole quite good and certainly appealing. This set includes leaves from two different 1485 editions and a 1486/87 printing of GART DER GESUNTHEIT (Mainz: Peter Schöffer 1485; Augsburg: Hans Schönsperger 1485; and Basel: Michael Furter 1486/87); and leaves from two different editions of ORTUS SANITATIS (Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach 1491 and Paris: Antoine Vérard 1500). In addition there are nine 16th century leaves one each from the HERBARI ODER KREÜTERBUCH; the HERBOLARIO VOLGARE; the CONTRAFAYT KREÜTERBUCH of OTTO BRUNFELS; an edition of ORTUS SANITATIS from 1538; DE HISTORIA STIRPIUM of LEONHART FUCHS; his NEW KREÜTERBUCH; the KREUTTERBUCH of EUCHARIUS ROSSELIN; the NEW KREÜTERBUCH of HIERONYMUS BOCK; and the KREUTTERBUCH of PIER ANDREA MATTIOLI. Finally there is a 1610 printing of the KRÄUTERBUCH of DIOSCORIDES and a really lovely leaf from the ANLEITUNG ZU DER PFLANZENKENNTNIS of SALOMON SCHINZ.