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HORTUS SANITATUS. Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511.
The fifth edition of the Latin text; the first edition printed in Italy. The blocks are reverse copies of Johann Prüss’s c.1496 Strasbourg copies of the woodcuts in the first edition, printed in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491. Two full-page cuts depict physicians in consultation, one based on that in Ketham's Fascicolo di medicina, the other repeated from a 1504 Venice edition of Guillelmus de Saliceto, Chirurgia. Original to this edition, as a supplement to the section De urinis, is the pseudo-Galen tract De facile acquisibilibus. Composition was divided between Benalius's and Tacuinus's shops, the former setting 30 of the quires, and the latter 28. The fine four-part title-page border with dolphins was part of Tacuinus's stock, first used by him a few months earlier for his edition of Vitruvius. Mortimer calls it "one of the most influential pieces of [book] ornamentation of the sixteenth century," being copied in several formats by many other Renaissance printers. Adams H-1016; Durling 2468; Essling 1723; Hunt 1:12; Mortimer Italian 238; Nissen BBI 2368; Sander 3470.
Chancery folio (301 x 203 mm). Double column, 53 lines + headline; initial spaces with guides; title-page border, more than 1000 column-width woodcuts, and three full-page cuts, two of which within handsome white-on-black borders. 367 (of 368) leaves, lacking only the final blank. (G2 supplied from a shorter copy with extended margin, neatly repaired tear on A1, scattered water stains, sheets S3.4 and T2.5 naturally browned, embossed stamp on f3.) Later vellum; edges plain. Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie (his 1934 bequest to:) Horticultural Society of New York (bequest bookplate); Robert de Belder (en bloc purchase of HSNY books); "An Important Botanical Library" (Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, lot 69); Joseph Freilich (bookplate).
The fifth edition of the Latin text; the first edition printed in Italy. The blocks are reverse copies of Johann Prüss’s c.1496 Strasbourg copies of the woodcuts in the first edition, printed in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491. Two full-page cuts depict physicians in consultation, one based on that in Ketham's Fascicolo di medicina, the other repeated from a 1504 Venice edition of Guillelmus de Saliceto, Chirurgia. Original to this edition, as a supplement to the section De urinis, is the pseudo-Galen tract De facile acquisibilibus. Composition was divided between Benalius's and Tacuinus's shops, the former setting 30 of the quires, and the latter 28. The fine four-part title-page border with dolphins was part of Tacuinus's stock, first used by him a few months earlier for his edition of Vitruvius. Mortimer calls it "one of the most influential pieces of [book] ornamentation of the sixteenth century," being copied in several formats by many other Renaissance printers. Adams H-1016; Durling 2468; Essling 1723; Hunt 1:12; Mortimer Italian 238; Nissen BBI 2368; Sander 3470.
Chancery folio (301 x 203 mm). Double column, 53 lines + headline; initial spaces with guides; title-page border, more than 1000 column-width woodcuts, and three full-page cuts, two of which within handsome white-on-black borders. 367 (of 368) leaves, lacking only the final blank. (G2 supplied from a shorter copy with extended margin, neatly repaired tear on A1, scattered water stains, sheets S3.4 and T2.5 naturally browned, embossed stamp on f3.) Later vellum; edges plain. Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie (his 1934 bequest to:) Horticultural Society of New York (bequest bookplate); Robert de Belder (en bloc purchase of HSNY books); "An Important Botanical Library" (Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, lot 69); Joseph Freilich (bookplate).