[Rarebooks] FS: Early natural history w/approx. 1, 000 woodcuts. Venice: 1511

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[Hortus Sanitatis]. ORTUS SANITATIS. DE HERBIS & PLANTIS. DE ANIMALIBUS & 
REPTILIBUS, DE AVIBUS & VOLATILIBUS… Tabula Medicinalis… (Venice: Bernardinum 
Benalium: et Joannem De Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuinum. 1511). Folio. 3 parts 
in 1. ff.(365) of ff.(367), double column text, lacking the divisional title 
leaf for part 2, “Tractatus de Animalibus,” and the final blank leaf. Indices. 
Title within a woodcut border. Text illustrated with approx. 1,000 woodcuts, 
mostly 3”x3” or 4”x3”. Old vellum, neatly rebacked. Lower inner corner of 
some preliminary and some final leaves with an old water stain. Lower outer 
blank corner of t3 repaired. Outer margin of S6 repaired, just touching the 
woodcut (no text loss). Leaf Q1 has 2 holes (approx. 1/2” across) in the center of 
the leaf affecting the edge of a woodcut and a few words on 3 lines of text. 
Occasional light soiling but overall a clean & attractive copy.     $18,500.00 
(trade discount allowed)
The “Hortus Sanitatis” (first edition: 1491) is one of the great early 
natural history compilations conveying health & medicinal knowledge about plants, 
animals, fish, birds, reptiles and stones. With over half of its woodcuts & 
text related to plants & herbs, it is also considered one of the 3 great early 
herbals, along with the Latin Herbarius (1484) and the German Herbarius or “Gart 
Der Gesundheit” (1485). See Durling #2468; Sander 3470; Nissen BOTANISCHE 
#2368.

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