<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3">[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)<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"><I>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.<BR>
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