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.

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.