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In 1543, Leonhart Fuchs, physician & pioneer of modern botany, published a ground-breaking medical research book: a comprehensive study of herbs. Cataloguing more than 500 types of plants, many of which originated in the recently-discovered New World, the New Kreuterbuch, or New Herbal, brought together masterly, detailed woodcuts of the plants with essays describing their features, origins, & medicinal powers. Fuchs's revolutionary book is still, 500 years after his birth, a model for botanical illustration & research. TASCHEN's new publication, whose reproductions are drawn from Fuchs's personal, hand-colored copy which has miraculously survived four & a half centuries in pristine condition, includes over 500 splendid illustrations, excerpted facsimiles of Fuchs's original text, & an essay comparing the use of healing herbs then & now. Both an important reference book & a superbly illustrated work, the New Herbal is, as Fuchs himself described it, "a merry book to look at."