[Hortus Sanitatis]

ORTUS SANITATIS. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus & Reptilibus. De Avibus... Tabula Medicinalis cum Directorio Generali per Omnes Tractatus

      Johan Pruess Strassburg: Johan Pruess. Not after 21 October, 1497. Second edition. Folio. 360 leaves, complete. Double column text. Illustrated with over 1,000 woodcuts showing plants and herbs, land animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals (including the magnet). There are 3 full page woodcuts which show a teacher and his students, a human skeleton and a pharmacy (apothecary) with a doctor and a pharmacist. Bound in modern (c. 1900?) plain stiff vellum, with overlapping fore-edge. Title leaf soiled and with some marginal repairs. Old water stain at top outer edge (mostly in the blank margin, but sometimes into a bit of the text as well). Some marginal tears (repaired); 4 leaves have repaired tears which go into the letter- press, but without any loss. The top (blank) outer corner of the final leaves repaired. An untrimmed copy with full margins.