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Credit: Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![22 leaves (the last a blank and missing), Gothic type. Small folio, old French red morocco, gilt edges, by Duru. [Strassburg]: Johann Mentelin, [not after 1466]. 3 $950.00 FIRST EDITION. The only book to contain the name of Johann Mentelin, the first printer at Strassburg (on recto of folio 2), and one of the earliest books printed in that town. Its priority over the likewise undated Mainz edition has been proved. It is needless to stress the rarity of a book printed at such an early date. A very large copy with some slight marginal repairs. Stillwell A-1085; GKW 2871; Hain 1956. A TURIN IMPRINT DESCRIBING THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR 10. AUGUSTIS, Quiricus DE. Lumen apothecariorum. 42 leaves, Gothic type, dou- ble columns, woodcut printer’s device at end; capitals and paragraph marks painted in red. Small folio, half vellum. Turin: Jacobinus Suigus & Nicolaus de Benedictis, 1492. $1,250.00 THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, A FINE, LARGE Copy. The Gesamtkatalog records only four copies, one of which is imperfect. One of the most important fifteenth-century pharmacopoeias, composed by Cyrice degli Augusti, physician in Vercelli. It is interesting not. only as an early textbook of pharma- cology, but also for describing the manufacture of sugar and marzipan, which is men- tioned here for the first time. Sugar, of course, takes an important place in this early pharmacopoeia, and on leaf 35 (misbound before the last leaf) we find an enumeration of 31 ways of using it: “De artificio zuchari continet 31 modum laborationis.” Fifteenth-century books printed at Turin rank among the great rarities, and this is the only copy listed in Stillwell. Stillwell A-1221 (this copy); GKW 3063; ‘Hain 2118; Klebs 123.1. THE FIRST PRINTED WORK OF SECULAR LEARNING 11. BALBUS bE JANUA, JOHANNEs. Catholicon. 373 leaves, Gothic type, double columns; manuscript headlines; an illuminated capital supplied at beginning of each volume. 2 vols., folio, full French eighteenth-century smooth red morocco, pub cleiegss Mainz: [Printer of the 1460 “Catholicon”], 1460. $15,000.00 FIRST EDITION. A very fine copy of the fourth printed book with a date and one of the monuments of early printing. The two “Psalters” and the “Durandus,” which preceded it as dated books, were printed at a different press. That press had, in 1454, passed from the [ 10 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33160296_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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