Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 January 1912
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/299
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 Lor 67— continued. notes, probably by the original purchaser (title mended, other- wise large and good), old calf (broken) folio. absque ulla nota { Coloniae, H. Quentell, c. 1496] *.* According to Hain *8941 this is EDITIO PRINCEPS. Proctor (1447) assigns it to Quentell’s second press, after 1494. This copy has an original inscription on title, probably by the original purchaser : “ANNO DOMINI MCCCCLXXXXVII. XI. Kalend. Novembris, regnante inclyte Principe Augustino 68 H(Orrus) Sanrratis. De Herbis & Plantis. De Animalibus et Reptilibus. De Avibus & Volatilibus. De Piscibus & Nata- tilibus, ete. Tabula Medicinalis cum Directorio Generali per Omnes tractatus, lit. goth. dowble columns, woodcut title, with Jull-page cut on reverse (damaged), numerous woodcuts of plants, animals, etc. (wants 4 ll. some stained, otherwise per- Sect ; sold not subject to return), half bound Jolio. Venetiis, B. Benalius et Jo. de Cereto de Tridino, 1511 69 [Hortus Sanitatis] Gart der Gesuntheyt. Vier Biicher von den thieren, Vogeln, Fischen, und Edlen Steinen, Itt. goth. dowble columns, numerous woodcuts (wants title and printer’s device at end), some Ul. wormed, Gedruckt zu Straszburg durch Matth. Apiarium, 1546—Konrad von Megenberg, Biich der Natur (Neun Biicher), {it. goth. nwmerous woodcuts (wants title), Franckf. a. M. Chr. Egenolff, 1536—Paracelsus. Des Hochberiimptesten und Weiterfarnesten der beiden Artzney Doctors Paracelsi Grosse Wundartzney von allen Wunden, ete. (drei Biicher), lit. goth. woodcuts (wants title), Gedruckt zu Ulm, bey Hans Varnier, 1536—Das Ander Biich der Grossen Wundartzney D. Paracelsi (Andere Ausgabe), lit. goth. (wants title and 3 Ul. at the beginning), Augspurg, H. Stayner, 1536; in 1 vol. sides of original German binding of oak boards, leather, stamped in compartments of emblematic and Scriptural figures and ornaments, with title and date, “Garth der Gesundtheit (M. D.)xxxvi” (worn and re- backed) | folio 70 [Hortus Sanitatis] (Par Joanne de Cuba) Le Jardin de Sante translate de latin en francoys nouvellement Imprime a Paris; Le Traicte des Bestes, Oyseaulx, etc. lettres batardes, double columns, title in red and black, with a woodcut of a garden, — and a large cut on reverse of the author presenting his book to a King (mended); corners of several other ll. mended, numerous woodcuts of plants, animals, etc. 2 vol. in 1, old calf (mended) folio. Paris, Philippe Le Noir (with device), s.d. (1539 %) 71 Lobel (Matthias de) Plantarum, seu Stirpium Historia; Cui annexem est, Adversariorum Volumen, 2 woodcut titles, and numerous woodcuts of plants, 2 vol. in 1, old Dutch leather, with arms, initials, and date 1587 on sides (the under cover damaged), gilt and gauffred edges, fine clean copy jolio. Antwerpiae, ex officina Chr. Plantini, 1576
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