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.

Use this text to share additional information about your products with your customers.A 1543 herbal reproduced from Fuchs's own hand-colored copy: over 500 plants, including the first images Europeans ever printed of maize, cactus, and tobacco. Botany from before science split from art. For plant people and natural-history romantics.