![[H]ORTUS SANITATIS. De Herbis et Plantis, de Animalibus et Reptilibus, de Avibus et Volatilibus, de Piscibus et Natatilibus, de Lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, de Urinis et earum speciebus. [Strassburg: Reinhard Beck] 1517.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_13730_0061_000(hortus_sanitatis_de_herbis_et_plantis_de_animalibus_et_reptilibus_de_a095255).jpg?w=1)
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[H]ORTUS SANITATIS. De Herbis et Plantis, de Animalibus et Reptilibus, de Avibus et Volatilibus, de Piscibus et Natatilibus, de Lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, de Urinis et earum speciebus. [Strassburg: Reinhard Beck] 1517.
Median 2° (307 x 204mm). Title within woodcut border printed in red and black, 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 of plants, animals, minerals, and genre scenes (including repeats), six- and eight-line woodcut initials, three-line type or metal-cut Lombard initials. (Tiny marginal chip to e3, small chip and short tear just into headline of e6 with associated loss of a few letters due to paperflaw, final two gatherings dampstained with associated repairs to final leaf, light marginal dampstaining to central gatherings with associated small tear to P1, minor worming at beginning mostly in the margins but also affecting end gatherings more severely.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, with manuscript on vellum pastedowns from an early 13th-century Justinian, Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, II, Tit. LI, 4 – Tit. LIII, 5 (upper pastedown) and Tit. III, 4 – Tit. IX, 1, probably German (rubbed and worn, upper cover almost detached, worming to covers, lacking clasps). Provenance: early 16th-century Latin marginalia in the section on urine — 'Vita mortis' (partially erased inscription in a late 16th-century English hand, with price of 'vi s. 8 d.')
THE LARGEST HERBAL AND MEDICAL WOODCUT BOOK PUBLISHED UNTIL THAT TIME. The fourth Strasbourg edition, a reprint using most of the blocks of the earlier Johann Prüss editions, first published in 1491. The human skeleton woodcut was the best representation of its type before Vesalius. The chapters on animals, stones and metals are here separated from plants for the first time. Adams H-1019; Choulant 65; Durling 2469; Fairfax Murray German 195; Hunt I, 18; Kristeller 570; Nissen BBI 2366.
Median 2° (307 x 204mm). Title within woodcut border printed in red and black, 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 of plants, animals, minerals, and genre scenes (including repeats), six- and eight-line woodcut initials, three-line type or metal-cut Lombard initials. (Tiny marginal chip to e3, small chip and short tear just into headline of e6 with associated loss of a few letters due to paperflaw, final two gatherings dampstained with associated repairs to final leaf, light marginal dampstaining to central gatherings with associated small tear to P1, minor worming at beginning mostly in the margins but also affecting end gatherings more severely.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, with manuscript on vellum pastedowns from an early 13th-century Justinian, Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, II, Tit. LI, 4 – Tit. LIII, 5 (upper pastedown) and Tit. III, 4 – Tit. IX, 1, probably German (rubbed and worn, upper cover almost detached, worming to covers, lacking clasps). Provenance: early 16th-century Latin marginalia in the section on urine — 'Vita mortis' (partially erased inscription in a late 16th-century English hand, with price of 'vi s. 8 d.')
THE LARGEST HERBAL AND MEDICAL WOODCUT BOOK PUBLISHED UNTIL THAT TIME. The fourth Strasbourg edition, a reprint using most of the blocks of the earlier Johann Prüss editions, first published in 1491. The human skeleton woodcut was the best representation of its type before Vesalius. The chapters on animals, stones and metals are here separated from plants for the first time. Adams H-1019; Choulant 65; Durling 2469; Fairfax Murray German 195; Hunt I, 18; Kristeller 570; Nissen BBI 2366.
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