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they embellished an abridged translation of Matthi- 

 oliis, printed under the name of the ' German Her- 

 bal.' In 1609 the same blocks were used by 

 UfFenbach for the herbal of Castor Durantes, printed 

 at Frankfort. This publication, however, compre- 

 hended only nine hundred and forty-eight of these 

 icons, nearly another hundred being introduced of 

 very inferior merit. After this period, Camerarius 

 the younger being dead, the blocks were purchased 

 by Goerlin, a bookseller of Ulm, and next serA'^ed 

 for the ' Parnassius Medicinalis illustratus' of Be- 

 cher, printed at that city in 1 663 ; the second part 

 of which work contains all those of the Epitome, 

 except six figures. In 1678 they were taken into 

 a German herbal, made up from Matthiolus by 

 Bernard Yerzascha, printed at Basle ; and such was 

 the excellency of the materials and workmanship of 

 the blocks, that they were exhibited a sixth time in 

 the Theatrum Botanicum of Krauterbuch of Zwin- 

 ger, being an amended edition of Verzascha, printed 

 also at Basle in 1696, with the addition of more 

 than one hundred new blocks, copied from C. Bau- 

 hine and Tabernas-montanus ; and finally into a 

 new edition of the same work, so late as the year 

 1744. 



" Thus did the genius and labours of Gesner add 

 dignity and ornament to the works of other men, 

 and even of some whose enmity he had experienced 

 during his lifetime. 



" Besides the above mentioned, Gesner left five 

 volumes, consisting entirely of figures, which, after 



