Lot 190: Ruel, Jean

Ruel, Jean
De natura stirpium libri tres. Basle: in officina Frobeniana, 1537, second edition, folio, pp. [xcii] 666 [ii], printer's woodcut device on title and last, woodcut initials throughout, contemporary vellum, later black label, some light foxing [mainly to title], some browning, occasional marginalia

Note: Second edition of this rare and important botantical work - the first general botantical text since the time of Theophrastus - in which Jean Ruel described nearly 600 plants in detail. Presented alphabetically, including descriptions of barks, roots, flowers, grafting, smells and flavours.