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*FucHS (L.). De historia stirpium. . . . Basileae, 1542. fol. 



It would be difficult to overpraise the noble full-page woodcuts 

 ia this work ; they are mostly Hfe-size. The portraits of the 

 draughtsmen and engraver are given at the end of the work. 



De stirpium historia . . . exiguam formam. . . . Basileae, 



1545. 8". 



Eeduced copies from the folio of 1542, and reversed in the 

 engraving. 



FucHS (R.). De plantis antea ignotis. . . . Venetiis, 1542. 12°. 

 The author of this must not be confoimded with Leonhard Fuchs. 



FucHS (L,). New Kreuterbuch. Basell, 1543. fol. 



Three French versions and one Dutch. 

 CoRNAEiTJS (J.). YulpecTila excoriata. Francofurti, 1545. 4°. 



One of the violent attacks common to the period ; it is an onslaught 

 upon Leonard Fuchs, whose name is played upon in the title. 



*Ttjenek (W.). The names of herbes. . . . Lond. [1548.] 8°. 

 JAscHAii (A.). A little Herball. . . . Lond. 1550. 12°. 

 *Tragus (H.), i.e. Bock. De stirpium. . . . Argent. 1552. 

 2 vols. 4°. 



Translated fi-om the German by David Kyber. The outline 

 figiures on wood are characteristic and good. 



. . . Imagiues omnium herbarum. . . . Strasburg, 1553. 4°. 



Amatus Ltjsitakus. In Dioscoridis . . . enarrationis. . . . Venet. 



1553. 4°. (Many later editions.) 

 *Mattioli (P.). Pedacii Dioscoridis de materia medica . . . com- 

 mentariis. Venetiis, 1554. fol. 



About 15 editions iu Latin, and as many in Italian, German, 

 French and Bohemian. The Latiu editions of 1569 and 1583 are 

 remarkable for the magnificent woodcuts which adorn them. 



Gesnee, (C). De raris et admirandis herbis. . . . Tiguri, 1555. 4°. 



Ed. 2, by T. Bartholin. Hafn. 1669. 8°. 

 *LoNiTZEK (A.). Kreuterbuch. . . . Frankfurt, 1557. fol. 

 About twenty later editions. 



Anguillaea (L.). Semplici. . . . Yenegia, 1561. 8". 

 In Latin, edited by C. Bauhin, Basil. 1593. 8"". 



*CoEDTJS (V.). Annotationes. Argent. 1561. fol. 

 With preface, etc., by Conrad Gesner. 



BuiLETNE (W.). The Booke of simples. . . . Lond. 1562. fol. 

 Forms the first part of his " Bulwarke of defece." 



CosTEO (G.). De universali stirpium natura. Aug. Taur. 1578. 4°. 



