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^TiiCES (L.). De historia stirpium. . . . Basileae, 1542. fol. 



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

 in this work ; they are mostly life-size. The portraits of the 

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



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



1545. 8°. 



Reduced copies from the folio of 1542, and reversed ia the 

 engraving. 



FtrcHS (E.). De plantis antea ignotis. . . . Venetiis, 1542. 12°. 



The author of this must not be confounded with Zeonhard Fuchs. 

 Fttchs (L.). ISTe-w Kreuterbucli. Basell, 1543. fol. 



Three French versions and one Dutch. 

 CoEfTAEius (J.). Vulpecula 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. 



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

 JAscHAM (A.). A little HerbaU. . . . Lend. 1650. 12°. 

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

 2 vols. 4°. 



Translated from the German h'y David. Kyber. The outUne 

 figures on wood are characteristic and good. 



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



Amattts LusiTAinjs. In Dioscoridis . . . enarrationis. . . . Venet. 



1553. 4°. (Many later editions.) 

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

 mentariis. Venetiis, 1554. fol. 



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

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

 remarkable for the magnificent woodcuts which adorn them. 



Gesnek (C). De raris et admirandis berbis. . . . Tiguri, 1555. 4°. 



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

 ^LoNECZEE (A.). Kreuterbucb. . . . Frankfurt, 1557. fol. 

 About twenty later editions. 



Angtjixlaea (L.). Semplioi. . . . Venegia, 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 (Gr.). De universali stirpium natura. Aug. Taur. 1578. 4°. 



