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HERBALS -- MINIATURE]. GESNER, CONRAD. Historia Plantarum et vires ex Dioscoride, Paulo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio, & recentioribus Graecis, iuxta elementor ordinem... [Venice: M. Sessa, 1541]. 16mo, 101 x 68 mm., modern calf; glue stains along gutter margin. The Sessa issue, appearing the same year as the first Basel edition of Gesner's first botanical book. Sessa's woodcut device on title. Wellisch 3.3. Early signature on title and notation on rear endpaper (dated 1649); KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- BRUNFELS, OTTO. Epitome ex gravissimis authoribus, totius rei medicae summam complectens. Paris: G. Julian, 1552. 16mo, 111 x 70 mm., later vellum; little marginal dampstaining. Second(?) edition of Brunfel's pocket epitome of medicinal plants, first published 1540. Adams B-2922. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- PLACOTOMUS, JOHANN. Compendium Pharmacopoeae. Lyon: G. Roville, 1561. 16mo, 113 x 67 mm., contemporary limp vellum; some soiling and staining. Second edition (first Antwerp 1560) of the first German pharmacopoeia. Adams P-1386; Baudrier IX, p. 276. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- FUCHS, LEONHARD. De Historia stirpium commentarii insignes... Lyon: G. Gaseau [colophon: Balthazar Arnoullet], 1547. 16mo, 122 x 78 mm., later vellum-backed boards; upper hinge cracked; some marginal browning and pale dampstains, lacks final blank. Woodcut initials. Baudrier I, p. 118. KKM/HSNY -- ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De secretis mulierum... Strassburg: Heirs of L. Zetzner, 1637. 16mo, 119 x 79 mm., contemporary calf; piece excised from title, some browning. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. De medica materia libri sex. Venice: D. Giglio, 1550. 16mo, 101 x 75 mm., contemporary limp vellum; title soiled and with some pale dampstain, some marginal dampstaining at beginning. NLM/Durling 1154. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- SPIEGHEL, ADRIAAN VAN DEN. Isagoges in rem herbarium libri duo... Leiden: Elzevir, 1633. 32mo, 108 x 51 mm., contemporary calf, spine gilt. Engraved title. (7)