|
|
Hortus medicus et philosophicus: in quo plurimarum stirpium breves descriptiones, novae icones non paucae, indicationes locorum natalium, observationes de cultura earum peculiares, atque insuper nonnulla remedia euporista, nec non philologica quaedam continentur.
Item, Sylva Hercynia, sive, Catalogus plantarum sponte nascentium in montibus & locis plerisque Hercyniae Sylvae quae respicit Saxoniam, conscriptus singulari studio. A Ioanne Thalio. . . ---Omnia primum in lucem edita. Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main]: Apud Iohannem Feyerabend, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendii, Henrici Dackii, & Petri Fischeri, 1588. Publishers from colophon.
Sylva Hercynia has separate t.p. Plates have separate t.p.: Icones accurate nunc primum delineatae praecipuarum stirpium: quarum descriptiones tam in horto quam in Sylva Hercynia suis locis habentur. Autore Ioachimo Camerario. . .Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum: [Apud Ioannem Feyerabend, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabenii [and two others], 1588. Hortus, p. 182 misprinted 128. Sylva, p. 53 misprinted 55. References: Hunt 156; Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.) 311; Blunt. Art of botanical illustration, p. 69.
This book describes and pictures the plants of the Harz Mountains, Germany. The book is divided into sections, with the first part containing just the plant descriptions, arranged alphabetically. This is followed by Johannes Thall's Sylva Hercynia. The final portion of the book contains the illustrations for Camerarius's work followed by illustrations for Thall's book.
Subjects: Botany--Pre-Linnean works; Medicinal plants; Harz Mountains.
PAT-14a