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(120) Jan '81 L'Estampe Originale S.F. Book Fair $50

Hortus Sanitatis (Latin) Mainz : Jacob Meydenbach , 23 June 1491. folio Goff H-486 HC 8944 , BMC I 44 , Early Herbals 45 , Oates 55 See Cop HEHL , PML Polain (B) 2003 Ca.xv11 #371 (11 5/16 X 8") xv11 454 leaves , the last blank . Double col. 48 lines . - signatures 221 x 141 mm. Types 92 text ; 155 headings & headlines Numerous woodcuts . 3 & 7 line spaces for capital, - printed guide letters , except in the Tractatus de Herbis . 529 figures - Tractatus de herbis 2a - 248a 164 " de Animalibus // vitam in terris Incentium 249a - 298b 123 Tractatus de Auibus 299a - 334a 109 * Tractatus de Piscibus 335a - 364 a (j-cvj) 144 " de Lapidibus 365a - 408b 2 occupant la " de Vrniis 409a - 422a page entiere 423a - 453a , tablets 453b conclusion & colophon. It described 95 more plants than the Gart and in addition it brought together the medical lore of the medieval bestiaries & works on precious stones - each chapter or capitulum opened - a woodcut of the plant, bird etc under discussion - beneath the cut was the Latin name & the chapter number followed by. a brief discription . Then followed "operationes" in which for the 1st time each individual use of the specific described was carefully tabulated & an individual letter of the alphabet ws assigned to it . This made immediate reference to a definite form of treatment possible. Capit XVII Canis marinus Sea dogs (Dog Fish) - are graceful little creatures - 4 legs , dorsal fins & very small feet. They bite like a dog, are the terror of fish around them, & they are highly poisonous. In the section dealing - animals ; the portion of the chapter entitled operations is frequently ommited. XVIII - (CHUB) XIX Whale XV(Carp)

409 of the 530 botanical cuts were based on the cuts of Schonsperger's smaller format editions of the Gart , The remainder being specially commissioned for this ed. A herbal has been defined as a book containing the names & descriptions of herbs , or of plants in general , - their properties & virtues. The word is believed to have been derived from a mediaeval Latin adjective "herbalis" the substantive "liber" being understood. It thus simply means "herb book". As time went on, The herbal , - its characteristic mixture of medical & botanical lore , gave way before the exclusively medical pharmacopoeia on the one hand , & the excusively botanical flora on the other. W. L. Schreiber The 106 figures of the section Aquatic Animals which are copied from an early illustrated manuscript & represent the most fantastic creatures are interesting. An early English version of Hortus Sanitalus Ref Z241,3 H82 1521 A number of the fishes described defy association - either fact or fable. In this as in most early accounts of the fishes, medieval theory is encountered that creatures on land had their aquatic counterparts . Our modern names , Sea Lion, Sea Mouse, Dog Fish etc are survivals. Operacion - comparatively small number in section on fishes The book is a vast compilation, a stupendous effort to collate biological knowledge & medical science extant in the 15th C. From its unknown compilers , apart from infrequesnt editorial notes , there is original information. the work mainly comprises quotations & often distortions from numerous earlier authorities , some dating back to the dawn of recorded history. - perhaps the most important medical book printed before 1500. Meydenbach is believed to have been a son of the man who cut the letters for the Psalter of 1457. Issued only 7 recorded books in all. (1491, 2 & 5 - 4 undated) HEHL rubricated in red & blue. Ca cccxxix - de herbis De Discibus Paritaris woodcuts similiar to Schonsberger volumes I (aaj) - cvi (eeii) my leaf aa5 (of 6) Calxxvii - mangnes. (cut similar to mine) \ before Ca XVI cancer (crab) each tractatus has large woodcut at beginning. \ after CaXIX cetus

121 Jan '81 Samuel W Katz -Los Angeles SF Book Fair $55

Schedel, Hartman (1440-1514) Liber chronicarum Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493 folio 1st ed. (Imperial) Goff S 307 HC 14508 BMC II 437 tallest copy 482x319mm Cop Stan UL, HEHL (CCXXXII) 326 leaves the last blank, 29-319 # Sexta etas mundi numbered Foliu I-CCXCIX Table + parts of the text in 2 col. 64 lines + headlinge, 352(366)x223mm Types: 165, headlines (numbers of the aitates mundi) + headings, 110b, text. Capital spaces in the table + on 21a, 2821, + 321a; printed capitals elsewhere. Leaves 279-281 (CCLVIIII-CCLXI) are blank except for the headlines. 645 different cuts plus 1164 repeats giving total of 1809. The watermark is a tarret. Original cost- 2 Rhenish florins unbound + uncolored. -Clement VI 1342-52 Innocent VI 1352-62 -Urban V 1362-70 Clement VII (Avignon) 1378-94 -Boniface IX 1389-1404 -Benedict XIII (Avignon) 1394-1423 Innocent VII 1404-1406 Gregory 1406-1415 The text begins on 21st leag (numbered Folia I) 2nd Age beginning on f11 3rd on f21 vo. 4 f46 vo. 5 f64 6 dating from birth - f85 of Christ - ending AM 6691, AD 1492 on f. 258 vo. A few of the next leaves are headed "Sexta etrs mundi" but this section deals to the history of the provinces of Germany by AEneas Sylvius Hartman Schedel -editor of the NUremberg Chronicle - his coat of arms -the Moore head. (18 1/2 x 12 1/2") 42 large views of cities + a double page map of Europe Type 110b -large text type cut for the Nuremberg Chronicle 1493 + used again in Durer's Latin Apocalypse 1498 165 - title type - 2 forms of E. Tail of h level to line. Used in 1482-93.

He describes the deeds fo St. Brigid of Sweden, who traveled to Romen to persuade Pope Urban not to fight Avion (sic), but fails to mention the diplomatic activities of St. Catherine of Siena, whom he treats only as a mystic. The amazing 1809 woodcuts from 645 blocks were executed by M. Wohlgemuth, the well known teacher of A. Durer, + his step son W. Pleydenwurff; both mentioned in the colophon. As recent scholarship has shown, A Durer may have also collaborated since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to the Apocalypse illustrations. The text is a year by year account of notable events in world history from the creation dow to the year of publication, to special emphasis on ominous + portentous events. -double folio map of Central Europe + large Ptolemaic world map. -Durer almost certainly had a hand in the woodcuts. Schedel like his fellow townsman Willibald Pirckheimer studied in Padua.

122 April '86 Calif Book Auction Gulevies San Fansicsco $65.00

134 copies to the leaf, of an ed. of 450 copies. San Franscisco: Wofay, 1977. Early Editions of Euclid's Elements. Charles Thomas - Stanford. San Franscisco 1977 to an original leaf from the Ratdold 1482 ed. of Euclid's Elemnets (1981) $13,500 -Liber V proposition 27-31 a10b-^8. Euclides, fl. c. 300 B.C., Greek mathematician Elementa geometria (LiberI-XIII XV) Venice: Enhand Ratdolt, 25 May 1482 F.0 Goff E113 HC 6693 BMC V p. 285 GW 9428. Horblit, Grolier 100 Science- 27. Cop Stan UL. San Franscisco Public Lib. (207x310) [to notes by Compenus Nouveriens in] Easling 282. 1381., the 1st blamk. (45) 445. +headlines, without marginalia 202(211)x118mm Types:155G heading on Ib; 92G, preface, definitions, enunciations; 91 G remainder of text; 100R headlines (book numbers); 56(75)G letterings of diagnoses. Capital spaces on 2a, capitals(2, 5, 6b) elsewhere The 1st in which Euclid appeared in print + also the earliest book in which a continuous series of geometrical illustrations were published. The enormous labor attending such a task is dwelt upon by Ratdolt in his dedication to the Doge Mocenigo -A specimen of similar initials had appeared 5 yrs before from the same printer in the Appian of 1477. -Geometrical figures executed in metal. -Earlier books best printed. Printing + Mind of Man #25. from Greek ro Arabic into Latin -Translated by Adelard of Bath, ca. 1110-1142; edited by Campunus of Novara (Lombards) ca. 1260-1292. There are in all, upwards of 420 wood engrabings, excluding about 200 which may be formed from lead lines -Dedication - to the Doge of Venice, John Mocenico (1478-85) -Ratdolt was the 1st printer to employ several coloured inks simultaneously, if we exclude the doubtful versal letters of the 1457 Psalter of Fust + Scheoffer. -Two different sizes of Gothic type, both of them considerably larger than that used for the "Fasciculus" are employed -Initials (Set 5) there are used 10 forms of S. -Ratdolt worked at Venice in 1476-86 + thereafter at Augsburg