The woodcuts depicting plants were utilized to illustrate the text and not merely for decoration. It served as a model for other illustrated books and passed through six editions before 1500. The original illustrated editions of Das Buch der Natur are very rare and exceedingly expensive. Herbarium of Apuleius - Published in Rome in 1481 or 1483. Herbarius Latinus - 1st herbal printed in Germany.
Author is anonymous.
It was a compilation of medieval and classical writers and was intended for the poor people. The herbal listed cheap and simple remedies of plants found in the field and forest. The text was in latin but names of plants were given in German and in Latin. Gart der Gesundheit - 400 illustrations, published in 1485. This herbal was a compilation worked out by the printer.