Friday, May 27, 2022

Books: Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal

Leonhart Fuchs.The New Herbal
now available from Taschen.

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.