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FUCHS (LEONHARD)
Plantarum effigies, Lyon, Arnoullet, 1552

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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FUCHS (LEONHARD)

Plantarum effigies, woodcut device on title and portrait of Fuchs on verso, 516 woodcut illustrations, colophon bound before these, light waterstains at ends, seventeenth century panelled calf, rubbed [Adams F1126; Nissen BBI 670; Pritzel 3140 note], 12mo, Lyon, Arnoullet, 1552

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Provenance: Early English annotations supplying vernacular plant names; Reynolds Stone (1909-1979); thence by descent to the present owner.

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