Strasbourg: (Josiam Rihel), 1560. Folio. ff. (xix), ccccxiii, (6). Illustrated with an armorial woodcut, woodcut portrait of the author, and around 530 in-text woodcuts (several hand-colored). Modern full tan calf, tooled in blind; text washed; title-page soiled, verso fore-edge of same repaired; scattered soiling and small marginal repairs; fore-edge of final leaf repaired. Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, p. 311; Heilmann, pp. 198-203; Hunt 66; Nissen BBI 182; OCLC 16950047; Pritzel 866; Stafleau C576

One of the most popular herbal books of the Renaissance, by a seminal botanist who was the first person to use the word "Riesling", and featuring over 500 fascinating woodcuts.

The Kreuter-Büch is a landmark in the field of botany. Bock is lauded for his careful study of German plants, the quality and clarity of his descriptions, and his discovery of plants never before described. Botanist Edward Lee Greene judges Bock to be "the first father of phytography after Theophrastus."