Botany - Herbal books Ryff, Walther Hermann (Pseud. Q. Apollinaris) (A short handbook and experiment of many herbs through the entire human body from the head to the feet. Sampt lebendiger Abcontrafactur etlicher gemeiner Kreuter ... honed and improved in many places. With 124, mostly third to half, botanical and allegorical woodcuts. Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1567. and: Tarquinius Schnellenberg: Experimenta Von Zwentzig Pestilentz Wurtzeln unnd Kreutern ... With 11 botan. With 11 botanical woodcuts, 2 of which are full-page, and 1 woodcut initial. Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1568. cl.-8° (2, title page and preface), 155, (5, index), (2) vol. sign: A-X2, (47) pp. sign: A-F7. Pigskin leather in 5 bands over wooden boards, cover and spine blindstamped with roll and embossed stamps. VD 16, R 395 (without proof) and VD16 S 3254 - Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration 1708 (mentions only the edition 1575) and 1786 - Two rare Strasbourg prints of popular herbal books with a total of 135, mostly large-format, partly also allegorical woodcuts. - The first title page in red and black print. - Binding bumped, worm-eaten and rubbed, the clasps missing, the endpapers renewed in the 19th century, finger- and soil-stained in places, ryff with additional hs. Pagination, leaf R8r with misprint, leaf F7v by Schnellenberg with annotations in manuscript filling the leaf. Annotations. Botanics. - Two rare Strasbourg prints of popular herbal books with a total of 135 mostly large-sized, partly allegorical woodcuts, one of the title pages in red and black printing. - Binding at spine with small worm-holes, generally bumped, stained and worn, clasps missing, endpapers renewed in the 19th ct, finger-stained in places, lv. R8r with printing mistake, lv. F7v by Schnellenberg with full-paged handwritten annotations.