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Christian Egenolff
Herbarum, arborum, fruticum, frumentorum ac leguminum, animalium ... aliorumq; quorum in medicinis usus est, simplicium, imagines ad vivum recens depictae
Frankfurt : Christian Egenolff, 1552

The publisher Christian Egenolff was not a botanical writer and was associated with a series of popular illustrated books.  The botanical illustrations in this work were mostly pirated from Brunfels and other works.  Leonhart Fuchs wrote in the preface to his 'De historia stirpium' (1542) that of all the then available herbals he knew, there were none which had "more of the crassest errors than those published by Egenolff"

In the RCPE copy the Dutch names of some plants are supplied in a 17th-century hand.

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