Herbarum imagines uiuae
Subtitle: Der Kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung
Publisher: Editions Medicina Rara
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: lat; ger
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Herbs; Therapeutic use; Early works to 1800; Medical Botany; Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Pictorial works
Other titles: Herbarum imagines vivae; Kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung; Hortus sanitatis.
Notes: Facsimile of: Francoforti : Christianus Egenolphius excudebat, 1535.

This work, a revision of Hortus sanitatis (attributed to Johann von Cuba), was first published in 1533 as part of Kreuterbuch von allem Erdgewächs. Cf. M. Möbius. Geschichte der Botanik. Jena, 1937. P. 30.

Plates for this printing were made from a copy of the original 1535 Frankfurt edition belonging to the Leopold Sophien Bibliothek Überlingen.

"The Medicina Rara edition was produced under the supervision of the Agathon Presse, Baiersbronn, West Germany"--Colophon.

"Twenty-eight hundred copies ... were printed for members of Editions Medicnia Rara Ltd. ..."--Colophon.

Includes index.