Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal

 (Sourcebook) (Multilingual Edition)

Werner Dressendörfer

Jazyk:	anglicky, francouzsky, německy
Počet stran:	752
Formát:	17 x 24 cm
Nakladatel:	Taschen
Vazba:	pevná

Cena:	792,00 Kč

• Anotace

  With his 1543 herb manual, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.

  Potent Plants

  Mother Nature’s medicine cabinet

  Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of some 500 types of plants and their healing properties.
  
  While a dependable scientific reference, The New Herbal won fame above all with the detail and quality of its illustrations. Alongside essays describing the plants’ features, origins, and medicinal powers, Fuchs presented each plant with meticulous woodcut illustrations, refining the ability for swift species identification and setting new standards for accuracy and quality in botanical publications. From the age of great exploration, The New Herbal also documented plant types from the recently discovered New World, offering the first visual record of tobacco, maize, kidney bean, and cactus.
  
  This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored copy, which has miraculously survived four-and-a-half centuries in pristine condition. Fascinating for historians of medicine and art, gardeners, and anyone interested in herbal medicine, the volume features over 500 splendid illustrations, and an essay exploring the history of healing herbs.

  The author

  Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has written extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history, and is the author of many of TASCHEN’s botanical publications.

  Leonhart Fuchs. The New HerbalHardcover, quarter-bound, 17 x 24 cm, 1.56 kg, 752 pages

  ISBN 978-3-7544-0215-3

  Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)

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• Další informace

  ISBN/EAN:	9783754402153
  Rok vydání:	2026

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