[Rarebooks] FS: 2 rare & important books bound together. Strassburg: 1529

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[Hortus Sanitatis]. GART DER GESUNTHEIT. Zu Latin Ortus Sanitatis… 
(Strassburg: Balthassar Beck. 1529). Folio. (286)pp. Double column text. Final blank 
leaf lacking. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts (mostly 3”x2”). 
Index. [BOUND SECOND AFTER:] Fries, Lorenz. SPIEGEL DER ARTZNEY… Laurentium 
Phriesen… Gebessert und Widerumb Fleissig Ubersehen Durch Othonem Brunfels. 
(Strassburg: Balthassar Beck. 1529). ff.141. Lacking the final blank. Index. Title 
within an ornate woodcut border. Full page woodcut on f.10 verso, of a human 
body cut apart to show the parts in detail. Both works bound together in 
contemporary blind tooled pigskin with both brass fore-edge clasps intact. Two inch 
split at lower front hinge, otherwise a very fine copy, housed in a brown cloth 
folding case.     $42,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
I: A very scarce German language printing of the “Gart Der Gesuntheit” (the 
German translation of the “Hortus Sanitatis”) with its fabulous woodcuts of 
plants & animals and numerous genre scenes of medieval life. Durling, 2467.   
This edition not in Pritzel, the BL or Adams. The N.U.C. records 3 copies.

II: This medical text became a very popular   handbook of materia medica as 
well as a general treatise on medicine, including sections on gynecology, 
psychiatric diseases, dentistry, ophthalmology, heart disease, etc. First printed 
in 1518, ours is the first edition to be edited by the great botanist-physician 
Otto Brunfels. The same printer/publisher Beck printed many editions, as late 
as 1546. These two works are encountered separately as well as found bound 
together. Durling, 1664. Bibliotheca Walleriana, 3267. Not in the BL or Adams.

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