Taschen

Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal book

An original masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing, Leonhart Fuchs' 1543 herb manual combined his masterful botanical knowledge with ground-breaking medical research. The original catalogue of around 500 plants types and their healing properties form the base of Taschen's Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal, a volume that is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored copy. With over 500 illustrations featured alongside essays describing each plant's features, origins and medicinal powers, facsimiles of Fuchs’s original texts, and an essay exploring the background of healing herbs, the edition is both a reliable scientific reference and a beautiful resource.

• Material: paper
• Made in Italy
• Designer color name: Multicoloured
• Item number: P01025358