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Dr. Eichenberger
Bein Wil Am See
May '94
75 S.F. = $53

Hortus Sanitatis, germanice. Gart der Gesundheit. f0
1st part: Herbarg oder Kruterbuck
Strassburg: Johann Pruss - der Altere, 1507 1480-1510 20 August
2nd part: Hortus sanitatis. (translated into German):
Gart der gesuntheit (zu Latin Ortis sanitatis)
Strassburg: Johann Pruss, 1509 22 Mai. p. 155+6
Ref: Choulant 21 p. 66 Becher 33 Kristeller 61 + 64 Panzer #590, 650
Pritzel 10831 Schmidt III 63, 72 Nissen 2282, 2370
Cop: Part I NYPL, leaf only Brown (Providence R.I.), Univ. of
Ill., Med. Science Lib, Chicago
Part II BM Strassbourg, Cambridge BU. Wellcome #3322 part 1 only - colored.

2nd Black letter, 173 (4) leaves. With 3 large woodcuts + more
than 500 smaller cuts of animals, fishes, birds +
precious stones. (538 small woodcuts + 3 large ones)
The 1st part is a reprint of the German "Gart der
Desundheit". The 2nd part is the 1st German translation
of the Latin Hortus sanitatis. The large woodcuts
+ the greater part of the smaller cuts are derived from
Pruss' 15th C. ed. of the Latin Hortus.
1st - Black letter. 2 col. 204 leaves. (452 woodcuts) 6ll. ff 182 [ie 180], 16[18]ll. f0
sig a-z, A-H, Aa-Dd

Vod den Colgen
Das XCIIII Capitel Palumbus / ein blochduss, - (wood pigeon, ring dove)
Das CXV Capitel Plates vn pluuialis rainy. (spoonbill)
Das XCVI Capitel Papiliones / seirt kleyne mucklin. - (gnat)
Das XCVIII Capitel Pellicarus - (pelican)
Das XCVII Capitel Perdix / ein rephun (rebhuhn) - (partridge)

Muther The woodcuts in the 2nd part are taken without change from
the earlier ed of the larger Hortus.
The text cuts of the 1st part are not found in the usual
ed. of the small Hortus, but are newly cut + are better
+ somewhat larger.
J. Pruss 1480-1510