Neu Vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, Von allerhand Gewächsen der Bäumen, Stauden und Kräutern, die in Teutschland, Italien, Franckreich, und in andern Orten der Welt herfür kommen. . Erstlich An das Tagliecht gegeben von . Petro Andrea Matthiolo. Darauff Mit vielen schönen Figuren.zum Vierten mal.aussgefertigt, durch . Joachimum Camerarium,. jetzund aber Als ein neues Werck. verbessert und vermehret von Bernhard Verzascha.

Title printed in red and black, with engr. frontispiece- portrait (B. Verzasca), by B. Kilian and more than 1000 text woodcuts. 4 unn. leaves, 792 (= 790) num. pp., 36 unn. leaves index. Folio (340 x 220 mm). Early 20th century vellum. Basel, Johann Jacob Decker, 1678. This famous herbal by Mattioli (1501-1577) and Camerarius (1500-1574), is present here in a new and revised variant "A" edition ed. by Bernhard Verzasca (1628-1680), who was the personal physician to the bishop of Basel and the margrave of Baden. Included in this work are extensive tracts on tobacco, coffee, tea, etc. Illustrated mostly with the famous woodcuts by Mattioli, but there are some woodcut illustrations by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), which are printed here for the first time. An extensive index at the end lists plant names in German, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and English.- Copies are known with an additional engraved title-page. A few lower margins at the end underlaid, only some light brownings as usual, otherwise fresh and complete. - VD17 23:294577K; Nissen, BBI, 1311; Pritzel 5990; Schmid, Ueber alte Kräuterbücher (1939), 57-58 and 60; Heilmann, Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte (1964), 252; Schnyder-von Waldkirch, Wie Europa den Kaffee entdeckte (1988), 223; Paisey M 499; cf. Lonchamp 3096. Not in Bircher/Bürger. SCIENCE: BOTANY ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ;