GART DER GESUNDHEIT

zu latein, Hortus Sanitatis. Sagt in vier Bucheren

      Title within fine woodcut border & over 530 woodcuts in the text (some repeated). Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf (otherwise blank). Title printed in red & black & highlighted in red by a contemporary hand. 6 p.l. (the last a blank), CXLI leaves, [1] leaf. Folio, cont. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (minor browning & foxing), orig. catches & clasps. Strasbourg: M. Apiarius, 1536. [bound with]: TACITUS, Cornelius. Der Romischen Keyser Historien...Item das Buchlein von der alten Teutschen brauch und leben... One fine full-page woodcut, fine woodcut initials, & a woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. 12 p.l., 452, [2] leaves. Folio (first few leaves with unimportant marginal worming in lower margin, final leaf partly dampstained). Mainz: I. Schoffer, 1535. A very fine and handsome sammelband from the library of His Serene Highness Prince Furstenberg at Donaueschingen. I. An extremely rare German translation, issued by the publisher in the same year as the much more common parallel Latin edition. For this and the Latin edition, the woodcuts have been newly drawn and cut. While the section on herbals of former editions has been omitted, this edition serves as an encyclopedia of the zoological and mineralogical kingdoms and the medical applications of their products. The very numerous woodcuts in the part devoted to the mineral world depict jewelers and goldsmiths, mining and metallurgical activities, etc. There is no copy listed in N.U.C., OCLC, or RLIN; we have located one copy at Munich. II. First edition in German of the Annals of Tacitus; this is a very rare edition and OCLC locates only one copy in the U.S. (and that copy lacks the final leaf with the printer's device). This is an important edition, the first to appear in German, translated and edited by Jakob Moltzer (or Micyllus, 1503-58), humanist and professor of Greek at Heidelberg. He was known as one of the most learned scholars of his time. The Annals record the history of the emperors of the Julian line from Tiberius to Nero (A.D. 14 to 68). He has given us a striking and vivid account of the empire in the 1st century. Fine crisp copies. I. Nissen, ZBI, 4730. VD 16, H 5127. II. VD 16, T 20. .