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Hortus Sanitatis. [Strassburg: Reinhard Beck], 1517.
Median 2o (307 x 207 mm). Title within woodcut border printed in red and black, COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, full-page woodcut of skeleton on k1v, 4 small woodcuts on K1r, small cut of woman with physician holding urine flask on GG1r, and 1066 woodcut illustrations in text (including repeats), many with CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORING six- and eight-line woodcut initials, three-line type or metalcut Lombard initials, a few leaves with red-ruling and red manuscript initials. (Some light soiling, a few leaves with mostly marginal worming.) Contemporary Bavarian bland-stamped calf over beveled wooden boards, covers decorated to a different pattern, vellum manuscript-lettered tabs (lacking clasps, catches, and corner and central bosses, spine repaired, head of spine chipped away, lower spine chipping, joints split, lower corner of upper cover torn, not represented in Schwenke). Provenance: Baumburg, Augustinians (early inscription in ink on title); early marginal notes in ink on a few leaves; Royal Library Munich duplicate (note in ink on pastedown).
Sixth edition, fourth Strassburg edition, a page for page reprint of the three Prüss editions, Beck having taken over the Prüss printing establishment. The title page is variously attributed to Urs Graf, Hans Wechtlin or Hans Baldung Grün. A few of the woodcuts are new to this edition, but most are reprints or very exact copies (a few reversed) of the Prüss blocks; the woodcut initials differ however from the Prüss cuts. COLORED COPIES ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. Adams H-1019; Cleveland Collections 29, HA Copy this copy, erroneously saying gatherings G-K are lacking; Fairfax Murray German 195; Hunt 18; Nissen BBI 2366; NLM/Durling 2469.
Median 2o (307 x 207 mm). Title within woodcut border printed in red and black, COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, full-page woodcut of skeleton on k1v, 4 small woodcuts on K1r, small cut of woman with physician holding urine flask on GG1r, and 1066 woodcut illustrations in text (including repeats), many with CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORING six- and eight-line woodcut initials, three-line type or metalcut Lombard initials, a few leaves with red-ruling and red manuscript initials. (Some light soiling, a few leaves with mostly marginal worming.) Contemporary Bavarian bland-stamped calf over beveled wooden boards, covers decorated to a different pattern, vellum manuscript-lettered tabs (lacking clasps, catches, and corner and central bosses, spine repaired, head of spine chipped away, lower spine chipping, joints split, lower corner of upper cover torn, not represented in Schwenke). Provenance: Baumburg, Augustinians (early inscription in ink on title); early marginal notes in ink on a few leaves; Royal Library Munich duplicate (note in ink on pastedown).
Sixth edition, fourth Strassburg edition, a page for page reprint of the three Prüss editions, Beck having taken over the Prüss printing establishment. The title page is variously attributed to Urs Graf, Hans Wechtlin or Hans Baldung Grün. A few of the woodcuts are new to this edition, but most are reprints or very exact copies (a few reversed) of the Prüss blocks; the woodcut initials differ however from the Prüss cuts. COLORED COPIES ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. Adams H-1019; Cleveland Collections 29, HA Copy this copy, erroneously saying gatherings G-K are lacking; Fairfax Murray German 195; Hunt 18; Nissen BBI 2366; NLM/Durling 2469.