[Rarebooks] FS: A Great Incunable: Medieval science, etc. The "Ortus Sanitatis" 2nd ed. (1497)

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[Hortus Sanitatis]. ORTUS SANITATIS. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus & 
Reptilibus. De Avibus… Tabula Medicinalis cum Directorio Generali per Omnes 
Tractatus. (Strassburg: Johan Pruess. Not after 21 October, 1497). Folio. 360 
leaves, complete. Double column text. Illustrated with over 1,000 woodcuts showing 
plants and herbs, land animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals (including 
the magnet). Also,there are 3 full page woodcuts which show a teacher and his 
students, a human skeleton and a pharmacy (apothecary) with a doctor and a 
pharmacist. Bound in modern (c. 1900?) plain stiff vellum, with overlapping 
fore-edge. Title leaf soiled and with some marginal repairs. Old water stain at 
top outer edge (mostly in the blank margin, but sometimes into a bit of the text 
as well). Some marginal tears (repaired); 4 leaves have repaired tears which 
go into the letter-press, but without any loss. The top (blank) outer corner 
of the final leaves repaired. An untrimmed copy with full margins.     
$67,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second edition (after the Mainz 1491 printing). It is the first edition 
to be printed by Pruess, who printed three editions before 1501. One of the 
most richly illustrated books of the 15th century and one of the great works of 
medieval science, medicine and botany. The encyclopedic text includes an index 
of diseases, a long treatise on urine and its properties, a discussion of 
gemstones, pharmacology, animal husbandry, etc., etc. With approximately half of 
the text relating to plants & herbs, it is considered one of the great early 
herbals. BMC I, 124; Goff H487; Hain 8941; Klebs 509.3. Dibner. HERALDS OF 
SCIENCE   #77.

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