NISSEN (CLAUS)


Herbals of Five Centuries, NUMBER 53 OF 100 COPIES IN ENGLISH (from an overall edition of 300), 50 original illustrated leaves from herbals and other botanical works (including 10 incunables), many hand-coloured, window-mounted with printed caption label, loose in publisher's cloth solander box with title label on upper cover, the accompanying text volume in publisher's wrappers strapped inside the front cover as issued, folio, Zurich, Munich and Olten, 1958
|ONE OF 100 COPIES WITH ENGLISH TEXT. Complete set of fifty leaves from herbals and botanical works of the fifteenth to nineteenth century, including Herbarius Moguntius (1483, and 14891), Gart der Gesuntheit 3 leaves 1485, also 1487 and 1499), Ortus Sanitatis (1491, and 1499), and works of Fuchs, Mattioli, l'Escluse, and others. It is accompanied by Claus Nissen's "Herbals of five centuries. A Contribution to Medical History and Bibliography".