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BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. New Vollkommen Distillierbuch Wohlgegrundeter künstlicher Distillations... Erstlich durch... Hieronymum Braunschweigs in Truck gegeben: Hernach durch... Gualterium Ryff... Jetzt aber... Corigiert mit vilen Figuren der Kreuter und Wurzeln gemehret. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff heirs, 1597. Folio, 266 x 175 mm., 17th-century stiff vellum, edges blue-stained, fore-edge of title-leaf reinforced, first 6 leaves strengthened along gutter margins, some soiling, a few leaves browned, occasional ink doodles and stains. Title in red and black, numerous woodcuts in text of plants, animals and distilling apparatus, woodcut printer's device at end. Benzing, Ryff, 157; Nissen BBI 270n; NLM/Durling 764.
Late (and apparently the last) edition of the ever-popular Kleines Destillierbuch, edited by Walter Hermann Ryff and illustrated with a variety of woodcuts from the impressive stock of the Egenolff publishing house, the plant cuts nearly all pirated copies of the woodcuts from the classic sixteenth-century herbals of Fuchs and Brunfels, previously used in Egenolph's editions of Lonitzer, Dioscorides, Rösslin and Dorsten.
Provenance: Early ownership inscription of Abraham Hornick, later signature of Rösler -- Ignaz Dominik Graf von Chorinski, of Bohemia, bookplate -- Robert Honeyman IV, signature on front flyleaf (sale, Sotheby's London, 30-31 October 1978, lot 532) -- Robert de Belder.
Late (and apparently the last) edition of the ever-popular Kleines Destillierbuch, edited by Walter Hermann Ryff and illustrated with a variety of woodcuts from the impressive stock of the Egenolff publishing house, the plant cuts nearly all pirated copies of the woodcuts from the classic sixteenth-century herbals of Fuchs and Brunfels, previously used in Egenolph's editions of Lonitzer, Dioscorides, Rösslin and Dorsten.
Provenance: Early ownership inscription of Abraham Hornick, later signature of Rösler -- Ignaz Dominik Graf von Chorinski, of Bohemia, bookplate -- Robert Honeyman IV, signature on front flyleaf (sale, Sotheby's London, 30-31 October 1978, lot 532) -- Robert de Belder.