50 - Biology - Botany - Brunfels, Otto. Contrafayt Herbarium ... previously published in German in a new edition, now available in print. (Part I (of 2). With a full-page woodcut coat of arms, numerous initials, and 176 mostly full-page, predominantly old-colored text woodcuts by Hans Weiditz. Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1532. 16 leaves, 332 (recte 334) pp., 7 leaves, 29 x 19 cm. Old parchment binding (spine filled, browned, and stained).

Biology - Botany - Brunfels, Otto. Contrafayt Herbarium ... previously published in German in a new edition, now available in print. (Part I (of 2). With a full-page woodcut coat of arms, numerous initials, and 176 mostly full-page, predominantly old-colored text woodcuts by Hans Weiditz. Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1532. 16 leaves, 332 (recte 334) pp., 7 leaves, 29 x 19 cm. Old parchment binding (spine filled, browned, and stained). First German edition; a second part was published posthumously in 1537. - VD 16, B 8503 - Nissen, BBI 258 - Schmid, Kräuterbücher, p. 22. - “A German adaptation, not merely a translation … the first work adorned with accurate and beautiful illustrations on a selection of plants growing in Germany.” (Schmid). Includes the supplementary leaf XCII after p. 92—not mentioned in VD 16 but present in the digitized version—featuring a woodcut of “Stabioß” on the recto (verso blank). - Numerous plants are labeled in roughly contemporary reddish pen with Latin or additional German names; some are also labeled by a later hand. - Title page dusty and stained; slight finger stains throughout; green tones partly oxidized to brownish hues; first sheet loose and reinforced at the fold between a3/4; sheet Bb water-stained at the bottom. *