Zwinger, Theodor: Theatrum botanicum. Das ist: vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, worinnen allerhand Erdgewächse, Bäume, Stauden und Kräuter, welche in allen vier Theilen der Welt, sonderlich aber in Europa, hervorkommen,   Herbals Q-Z
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Zwinger, Theodor: Theatrum botanicum. Das ist: vollkom-menes Kräuter-Buch, worinnen allerhand Erdgewächse, Bäume, Stauden und Kräuter, welche in allen vier Theilen der Welt, sonderlich aber in Europa, hervorkommen, neben ihren sonderbaren Eigenschafte, Tugenden, ...
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Quanjer, H.M.: Bijdrage tot de kennis van den anatomischen bouw van geneeskrachtige Indische planten. Bekroond antwoord op de prijsvraag, uitgeschreven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen.
Haarlem, Loosjes, 1903, pp. [iii], 138, 26 plates with several figures (drawings), 4to, uncut, boards. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem.
€ 60
This volume further contains: Guérin, Ch.F.J.: Germination et implantation du gui (Viscum album), pp. [vi], 32, plate-illustrations; Redeke, H.C.: Plankton-onderzoekingen in het Zwanenwater bij Callantsoog, pp. [vii], 42, 5 plates.
   
Rawton, Olivier de: Les plantes qui guérissent et les plantes qui tuent. Ouvrage illustré de 130 gravures sur bois.
Paris, Combet, [n.d.], 6. edition, pp. viii, 352, wood-engraved text-illustrations, 8vo, gilt edges, half cloth with marbled boards and embossed spine (neatly repaired).
€ 60
* Cf. Plesch p. 373 (5. edition); Stafleu & Cowan 8694 (1. edition of 1884).
   
Richard, Achille: Nouveaux éléments de botanique et de physiologie végétale, avec le tableau méthodique des familles naturelles, par … nouvelle édition, augmentée d’un précis des propriétés médicamenteuses des végétaux ou de leurs produits, d’après les meilleurs traités de matière médicale; et d’un grand nombre de figures pour aider à l’intelligence des caractères des familles du règne végétal; par [Pierre Auguste Joseph] Drapiez.
Bruxelles, A. Wahlen & Londres, Dulau, 1837, new edition, pp. 343, 46 plates, large 8vo (160 x 248 mm), calf-backed marbled boards with richly gilt-decorated spine (joints partly weak).
€ 180
This work was published in many editions and languages. According to Stafleu & Cowan this is an unlicensed edition and apparently extra illustrated with 34 plates with several engraved details; the 12 lithographed plates show the whole flowering plant.
* Stafleu & Cowan 9138; this edition not in Pritzel.
   
Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair: A garden of herbs.
London & Boston, Philip Lee Warner, [1920], 1. edition, pp. ix, 224, (4, adv.), text-illustrations of "knots for the housewife’s garden", 8vo, cloth. Ownership inscription on title-page of J.G. Verdoorn. Very well preserved copy.
€ 50
Contains a wealth of recipes together with historical information about English herbs. The recipes are for teas, wines, candy and some cosmetics.
   
Rutten, A.M.G.: Magische kruiden in de Antilliaanse folklore. Etnofarmacologie van het Caribisch gebied.
Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2003, pp. 188, text-illustrations (partly in colour), large 8vo, colour-illustrated stiff wrappers.
€ 25
 
 
Saumaise, Claude (Claudius Salmasius): Praefatio in librum de homonymis hyles iatricae, eiusdem De Plinio iudicium.
Divione [Dijon], widow P. Chavance, 1668, pp. [viii], 110, title-page with woodcut ornament in red and black, 4to (165 x 225 mm), contemporary limp vellum. Nice copy.
€ 460
Very rare edition of 2 essays by the French scholar and Leiden professor Claude Saumaise (1588-1653): a philological essay on Greek plant names and on their medical use, and a critical essay on Pliny the Elder (first published in 1629). Saumaise began a law career at Dijon in 1610. In 1631 he was called to the University of Leiden to succeed Joseph Scaliger. There he produced 80 books and became widely known as a scholar of the first rank. Salmasius' major works include an important commentary on Pliny (1629), and Observationes in jus Atticum et Romanum (1645).
* BN Paris (1); NUC (1); cf. Goldsmith (BL London) S-320 (reissue); cf. Matagne (Namur) S-115 (later edition); not in Pritzel.
   
Schierbeek, A. (editor): Bloemlezing uit het Cruydt-boeck van Rembert Dodoens.
Den Haag, De Hofstad, 1941, 1. edition, pp. 160, 67 text-illustrations, large 8vo, cloth-backed illustrated boards.
€ 25
   
Schierbeek, A. (editor): Bloemlezing uit het Cruydt-boeck van Rembert Dodoens.
Den Haag, De Hofstad, 1941, 1. edition, pp. 160, large 8vo, 67 text-illustrations, illustrated wrappers.
€ 25
   
Schierbeek, A. (editor): Bloemlezing uit het Cruydt-boeck van Rembert Dodoens.
‘s-Gravenhage, De Hofstad & Amsterdam, L.J. Veen, [1954], 2. edition, pp. [ii], 166, 68 text-illustrations after woodcuts, etc., large 8vo, cloth-backed printed boards.
€ 30
This augmented edition (1. edition 1941) on better paper and better bound. With reproductions from the last edition of the herbal of 1644.
   
Schimpfky, Richard: Unsere Heilpflanzen in Bild und Wort für jedermann. Ihr Nutzen und ihre Anwendung in Haus und Familie.
Gera, F. von Zezschwitz, [ca. 1900], 2. edition, pp. [iii*], ii, 8, [193], (1, adv.), 82 colour-plates (92 nos.). [&] ... Ergänzungsband. Gera-Untermhaus, F.E. Köhler, [ca. 1905], pp. viii, [104], 45 colour-plates (46 nos.); 8vo, 2 volumes, illustrated gilt-lettered cloth.
€ 230
The fine chromolithographed plates with several details (figures).
* Not in Nissen BBI.
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Schönfelder, Bruno & Wilhelm J. Fischer: Welche Heilpflanze ist das? Einheimische und angebaute Heil- und Giftpflanzen, ihre Wirkung und Anwendung.
Stuttgart, Kosmos, 1955, (62.-69.000), pp. 156, (4, adv.), 350 text-illustrations and 8 colour-plates by Gabrielle Gossner, 8vo, limp cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 20
   
Schönfelder, Bruno & Wilhelm J. Fischer: Welche Heilpflanze ist das? Einheimische und angebaute Heil- und Giftpflanzen, ihre Wirkung und Anwendung.
Stuttgart, Kosmos, 1952, (54.-61.000), pp. 143, (1, adv.), 225 text-illustrations and 8 colour-plates, 8vo, limp cloth.
€ 20
   
Schönfelder, Peter & Ingrid: Der Kosmos Heilpflanzenführer. Europäische Heil- und Giftpflanzen.
Stuttgart, Kosmos, 1980, pp. 277, (3, adv.), numerous text-illustrations (mostly in colour), 8vo, boards, dust-jacket.
€ 20
   
Schouten, J.: De slangestaf van Asklepios symbool der geneeskunde.
Amsterdam & Meppel, Koninklijke Pharmaceutische Fabrieken, [ca. 1963], 2. impression, pp. 216, 72 text-illustrations, small 4to, illustrated cloth. English summary. Trade edition of the thesis of 1963.
€ 30
   
Schreiber - Schreibers kleiner Atlas der wichtigeren Heilpflanzen.
Esslingen & München, J.F. Schreiber, [ca. 1920], 12 colour-plates folded in leporello with several figures, 8vo, stiff printed wrappers with mounted colour-plate.
€ 30
   
Seringe, Nicolas Charles: Flore du pharmacien, du droguiste et de l’herboriste ou description des plantes médicinales spontanées ou cultivées en France disposées en familles.
Paris, Victor Masson, 1852, pp. cxii, 3, folding chart, xxiv, 743, (1, err.), text-illustrations, small 8vo, green morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt-ruled and -lettered spine. Some browning, due to the quality of the paper.
€ 110
* Stafleu & Cowan 11.725.
 
Sieg, Hilde: Gottessegen der Kräuter einst und immerdar.
Berlin, Rowohlt, 1936, pp. [iv*], v, 324, many text-illustrations from old herbals and nice colour-plates by Marcus Behmer, 8vo, colour-illustrated cloth.
€ 35
   
Sobernheim, J.F.: Handboek tot de practische leer der geneesmiddelen. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald naar de laatste uitgave, door Dr. L.H. Verweij.
Gouda, R. Vogelensank, 1842, pp. [iv], 543, 4to (223 x 267 mm), gilt-decorated spine with green gilt-decorated and lettered label and marbled boards. Last few leaves lightly stained in upper margin.
€ 545
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Soeterwoude, W. Elout van: De opium-vloek op Java.
‘s-Gravenhage [Den Haag], Anti-Opium-Bond & Zuid-Hollandsche Boek- en Handelsdrukkerij, 1890, pp. 85; folding enclosure A; enclosure B, pp. 8; enclosure C, pp. 13; enclosure D, pp. 4; 4to, half cloth with marbled boards and mounted illustrated front wrapper (library binding). Unobtrusive library stamps.
€ 120
   
Steinmann, Waltraut: Das Heidekraut. Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull. Eine botanisch-chemisch-pharmazeutische Bearbeitung.
Hamburg, Hanischer Gildenverlag, 1947, pp. 117, text-illustrations, 8vo, printed wrappers. Monographie einer alten Heilpflanze. Paper slightly browned.
€ 25
   
Tolley, Emelie: Kruiden. Tuinen, versieringen en recepten. Vertaald en bewerkt door Elisabeth de Lestrieux.
Zutphen, Terra, 1988, pp. viii, 244, profusely illustrated in colour with photos by Chris Mead, square 4to, cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 25
   
Tschirch, Alexander & O. Oesterle: Anatomischer Atlas der Pharmakognosie und Nahrungsmittelkunde.
Leipzig, T.O. Weigel (Chr.Herm. Tauchnitz), 1893, part 1, pp. [ii, general title-page], v*, iv, 1-174, plate 1-40; - Chr.Herm. Tauchnitz, 1900, part 2, pp. [ii], iv, 175-352, [8, errata, one sided], plate 50-79, 80a & 80b; bound in 2 volumes, folio (230 x 308 mm), modern buckram with gilt-lettered and ruled spines. Small cancelled library stamps.
€ 375
A first volume was published in 1889 as Angewandte Pflanzenanatomie (Stafleu & Cowan 15.256). The 81 lithographed plates with ca. 2000 figures are partly coloured.
* Nissen BBI 2006b; Stafleu & Cowan 15.261.
 
Tschirch, Alexander & Otto Oesterle: Anatomischer Atlas der Pharmakognosie und Nahrungsmittelkunde. Ca. 2000 Originalzeichnungen auf 81 Tafeln mit begleitendem Text.
Leipzig, Chr.Herm. Tauchnitz, [1893-] 1900, pp. vi, 7 leaves (indexes and preface, 352, (1, add., 8, err., one sided), ca. 2000 figs on 81 lithographed plates (partly coloured, numbered 1-80a and 80b), folio (230 x 315 mm), marbled edges, half calf with marbled boards, ruled spine with gilt decoration (publisher’s binding). Cancelled library stamps and 1 plate repaired in margin.
€ 390
Published from 1893-1900 in 17 fascicles, forming 2 parts. This copy bound in 1 volume with a general title-page. A first volume was published in 1889 as Angewandte Pflanzenanatomie (Stafleu & Cowan TL2/15.256).
* Nissen BBI 2006b; Rehder III p. 259; Stafleu & Cowan 15.261.
 
Tschirch, Alexander & Otto Oesterle: Anatomischer Atlas der Pharmakognosie und Nahrungsmittelkunde. Ca. 2000 Originalzeichnungen auf 81 Tafeln mit begleitendem Text.
Leipzig, Chr.Herm. Tauchnitz, 1900, pp. vi, v*, [7, err., one sided], 352, ca. 2000 figs on 81 lithographed plates (partly coloured), folio, uncut, printed boards (slightly rubbed) in portfolio. Several library stamps on title-page. Well preserved copy.
€ 275
Published from 1893-1900 in 17 fascicles, forming 2 parts. [This copy bound in 1 volume with a general title-page.] A first volume was published in 1889 as Angewandte Pflanzenanatomie (Stafleu & Cowan TL2/15.256).
* Nissen BBI 2006b; Rehder III p. 259; Stafleu & Cowan 15.261.
   
Tschirch, Alexander et al.: Handbuch der Pharmakognosie.
Band 1. Allgemeine Pharmakognosie (3 volumes).
Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1930-1933, 2. augmented edition: 1, pp. xi, 1-583, (1), 376 text-illustrations, 42 plates, 3 folding maps in colour and 1 enclosure; 2, pp. 584-1151, 188 text-illustrations, 7 plates, 1 table and 3 folding maps in colour; 3, pp. xiii, 1151- 2015, (1), 194 text-illustrations and 10 plates; 4to, decorated gilt-lettered cloth +
Band 2. Speziellen Pharmakognosie.
- 1936, 2. edition, pp. [ii], v-viii, 1-416, 153 text-illustrations and 10 plates, 4 parts (fascicle 18-21), 4to, unopened, illustrated wrappers (all published). Fine set.
Provenance: Hk. Cohen (book-plates).
€ 650
   
Turner, William: Libellus de re herbaria 1538. The names of herbes 1548. Facsimiles with introductory matter by James Britten, B. Daydon Jackson & W.T. Stearn.
London, The Ray Society, 1965, pp. ix, 273, (1), 8vo, gilt-illlustrated cloth dust-jacket. Fine copy.
€ 60
Facsimiles of two rare works by the "father of British botany", being the first printed books relating to the British flora. With extensive additional text.
   
Vander, Adrián: Plantas medicinales. Las enfermedades y su tratamiento por las plantas. Tratado práctico de medicina vegetal para la eficaz aplicación de las plantas curativas, basado et las más modernas investigaciones.
Barcelona, Sintes, 1964, new edition, pp. 254, (2, adv.), 130 text-illustrations and 24 plates with numerous figures (partly in colour), small 4to, colour-decorated cloth (slightly rubbed).
€ 25
 
 
Vautherin, A.: Des graines de Croton tiglium (petit pignon d’Inde) et de Curcas purgans (gros pignon d’Inde). Des produits qu’on en retire. Recherches de chimie, physique, physiologie, pharmacologie, et micrographie.
Paris, Pharmacie de A. Vautherin, 1864, pp. 5-147, 2 plates with 28 figures, 8vo, partly unopened, printed wrappers (front cover neatly repaired).
€ 55
   
Veth, Jan: De prenten in het Cruydt-boeck van Dodonaeus.
Amsterdam, J.F. Duwaer & S.H. de Roos, 1935, pp. 18, text-illustrations, 4to, uncut, wrappers. Edition limited to 200 copies, of which this is no. 87. Printed in black and green with the Meidoorn-letter.
Provenance: Hk. Cohen (book-plate).
€ 100
   
Volák, Jan & Jirí Stodola: Plantes médicinales.
Paris, Gründ, 1985, 5. impression, pp. 319, 256 fine colour-illustrations by Frantisek Severa, 4to, cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 40
   
Waal, Marinus de: Onderzoek naar de insecticide kracht der compositen, in het bijzonder van Helenium autumnale L.
Groningen, M. de Waal, 1920, pp. [vii], 107, plates, large 8vo, printed wrappers. Thesis.
€ 25
   
Warsage, Rudolphe de: La médecine sans médecin. Dictionnaire de remèdes populaires. Étude de folklore.
Liège, F. Gothier, 1933, pp. 91, square 8vo, uncut, printed wrappers (spotted).
€ 30
   
Wenkebach, Ernst: Das Proömium der Kommentare Galens zu den Epidemien des Hippokrates.
Berlin, Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1918, pp. [ii], 55, 4to, printed wrappers. Einzelausgabe Abhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften.
€ 30
 
 
Wenkebach, Ernst: Pseudogalenische Kommentare zu den Epidemien des Hippokrates.
Berlin, Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917, pp. 62, 4to, printed wrappers. Einzelausgabe Abhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften.
€ 30
 
 
Wetzel, Karl: Giftpflanzen unserer Heimat.
Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1936, pp. 32, 24 colour-plates by Kurt Bessiger, small 8vo, decorated boards (rubbed). Weberschiffchen Bücherei.
€ 20
   
Willinge Prins, J.A.: De plant als genees-, genot- en voedingsmiddel. Overzicht van in Nederland bekende of gebruikte gewassen, voor ieder die belang stelt in geneeskunde, botanie en voedingsleer.
Amsterdam, Argus, (1952), pp. 347, 134 text-illustrations and 4 colour-plates by Hen Bavelaar, large 8vo, decorated artificial leather, dust-jacket.
€ 35
   
Willinge Prins, J.A.: De plant als genees-, genot- en voedingsmiddel. Overzicht van in Nederland bekende of gebruikte gewassen, voor ieder die belang stelt in geneeskunde, botanie en voedingsleer.
Amsterdam, Argus, (1952), pp. 347, 134 text-illustrations and 4 colour-plates by Hen Bavelaar, large 8vo, decorated artificial leather.
€ 30
   
Withering, William: Bericht über den Fingerhut und seine medizinische Anwendung mit praktischen Bemerkungen über Wassersucht und andere Krankheiten.
Mannheim, C.F. Boeringer, (1929), pp. 210, folding frontispiece in colour, small 8vo, cloth-backed boards (slightly rubbed).
€ 50
Translated from the English edition of 1785. The large folding plate of Digitalis purpurea after plate 48 in William Curtis, Flora Londinensis.
* Stafleu & Cowan 18.078.
   
Zwinger, Theodor: Theatrum botanicum. Das ist: vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, worinnen allerhand Erdgewächse, Bäume, Stauden und Kräuter, welche in allen vier Theilen der Welt, sonderlich aber in Europa, hervorkommen, neben ihren sonderbaren Eigenschafte, Tugenden, und vortrefflichen Wirkungen, auch vielen herrlichen Artzneimitteln und derer Gebrauche, wider allerley Krankheiten an Menschen und Vieh, mit sonderbarem Fleiß auf eine ganz neue, beliebte Art und Weise, dergleichen in andern Kräuterbüchern nicht zu finden, beschrieben, auch mit schönen nach der Natur gezeichneten Figuren gezieret, und neben den ordentlichen, so wohl Kräuter- als Krankheits-Registern, mit nützlichen Marginalien vorgestellet sind. Allen Aertzten, Wundärtzten, Apotheckern, Gärtnern, Hausvätern und Hausmütern, sonderlich aber denen auf dem Lande wohnenden kranken und presthaften Personen höchstnützlich und vorträglich. Itzo auf das Neue übersehen, und mit vielen Beschreibungen und Figuren der Kräuter vermehret durch Friedrich Zwinger, des seel. Authors Sohn, ...
Basel, Hans Jacob Bischoff, 1744, copper-engraved frontispiece, 7 leaves, pp. 1216, 28 leaves, ca. 1200 woodcuts, folding copper-engraved portrait of the author by Greg. Brandmüller, folio (220 x 352 mm), contemporay calf with gilt-decorated label on spine and raised bands (spine ends with tiny defects; some unobtrusive wormholes). Fine copy with exceptional clean contents.
€ 5.500
The augmented second and last edition, largely on Matthioli based herbal, which was first published in 1696.
* Pritzel 10532; Nissen BBI 1311; Heilmann p. 343.
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