FUCHS

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FUCHS
[Sixteenth-century book]. FUCHS (Leonhart). De historia stirpium commentarii insignes Lugduni, apud G. Gazellum, [at the colophon: excudebat Balthazar Arnoullet], 1547. Fort in-16, [20] f., 957 p. (except pp. 271-272), [9] f. (the last blank), contemporary tan calf, spine with 4 nerves and mute, gilt fleurons, boards decorated with a double framing of cold fillets, with gilt corner fleurons and central medallion (head cap torn off, box missing at tail, rubbing, one guard torn, title a little soiled, very light dampening at very beginning of vol. and sporadic in margins, very scarce soiling in margins, 1 leaf missing, enclosed as a reproduction). Small and conveniently used version, but without illustrations, of this famous botanical work, which first appeared in 1542 in folio format and illustrated with numerous engraved figures. First edition in Lyon, and one of the very first published in France (after the first one in Paris in 1546, two were published in 1547, one in Paris by Jacques Gazeau, and this one in Lyon, by his brother Guillaume Gazeau). Signs aa-bb 8, cc 4, a-z 8 (except r8), A-Z 8, Aa-Pp8 (Pp8 blank). Old signatures on last f. and in margin of pp. 277 and 384. (USTC 79597, with erroneous address; Ariane Lepilliet, Leonhart Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium : histoire d'un succès éditorial (1542-1560). Master's thesis, Lyon, 2012, pp. 60 and 63 (http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-60360).
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