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