BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. 1450-1512.Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidemic. Das buch der vergift der pestilentz. [Strassburg]: Johann Grüninger, 19 August 1500. Folio (290 x 208 mm). 38 leaves (of 40: lacking numbered leaves III and IV), gothic letter, 2 columns, 42 lines and head-line, 21 (of 23) woodcuts, 8 of which are very large. Modern calf. Some light worming to title and first few leaves with worming affecting woodcut, some dampstaining to lower margin. Modern calf. FIRST EDITION. The most important work on the plague published in the 15th century. Brunschwig was a German surgeon and botanist. Among his other influential book was the Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus also called Kleines Destillierbuch. Very rare, according to American Book Prices Current, only this copy sold at auction (1982) in the past 45 years. BMC I:115 (IB 1501); BSB-Ink B-933; GW 5596; Klebs 228.1; Goff B-1228; HC 4020.
BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. 1450-1512.Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidemic. Das buch der vergift der pestilentz. [Strassburg]: Johann Grüninger, 19 August 1500. Folio (290 x 208 mm). 38 leaves (of 40: lacking numbered leaves III and IV), gothic letter, 2 columns, 42 lines and head-line, 21 (of 23) woodcuts, 8 of which are very large. Modern calf. Some light worming to title and first few leaves with worming affecting woodcut, some dampstaining to lower margin. Modern calf. FIRST EDITION. The most important work on the plague published in the 15th century. Brunschwig was a German surgeon and botanist. Among his other influential book was the Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus also called Kleines Destillierbuch. Very rare, according to American Book Prices Current, only this copy sold at auction (1982) in the past 45 years. BMC I:115 (IB 1501); BSB-Ink B-933; GW 5596; Klebs 228.1; Goff B-1228; HC 4020.
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