Nissen (Claus), 1901-1975
Geck (Elisabeth), born 1922; Pressler (Guido), editors

(25 cm), 686 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s percaline binding. - Festschrift celebrating the seventieth birthday for the great bibliographer of illustrated natural history books, edited by the curator of the Gutenberg Museum at Mainz. Contributions by Josef Benzing (Zum Leben und Werk des Strassburger Druckers Jakob Cammerlander), Curt F. Bühler (Newly discovered variant settings in the Hypnerotomachia poliphili), Karl Heinz Burmeister (Der Humanist und Botaniker Gabriel Hummelberg, ca. 1490-1544), Elly Cockx-Indestege (De flora Danica van Simon Paulli), Ray Desmond (Benjamin Fawcett), Helmut Dolezal (Zur Editionsgeschichte der Icones plantarum rariorum von Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin), Joseph Ewan (Annals of “The most wonderful plant in the world”), Hans Peter Fuchs-Eckert (Die Icones plantarum et analyses partium des Casimir Christoph Schmidel), Armin Geus (Die Vogelbilder des Danziger Malers Samuel Niedenthal), Frederick R.Goff (Johann Petri of Passau and his Herbarius latinus), Johannes Helm (Die Zeichner der botanischen Iconographien von Ludwig Reichenbach im Zeitraum 1820-1850), Christian Huenemoerder (Die Ikonographie des Fasans in der abendländisch-christlichen Buchmalerei), Zoltán Kádár (Die älteste Darstellung des Okapis in Europa), Hermann Knaus (Die Arenbergbibel), Albert Labarre (Diffusion de l’Historia naturalis de pline au temps de la renaissance), Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (The microscope and the book), Kurt Lindner (Das Hausbuch des Johann Coler), Dennis E. Rhodes (An unidentified edition of Galen), William T. Stearn (Magnol’s Botanicum monspeliense and Linnaeus’s Flora monspeliensis), Alwyne Wheeler (Thomas Bewick’s projected History of British fishes, with notes on another book on fishes attributed to Bewick). ¶ As new.