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BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. New Vollkommen Distillierbuch Wohlgegrundeter künstlicher Distillations... Erstlich durch... Hieronymum Braunschweigs in Truck gegeben: Hernach durch... Gualterium Ryff... Jetzt aber... Corigiert mit vilen Figuren der Kreuter und Wurzeln gemehret. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff heirs, 1597. Folio, 266 x 175 mm., 17th-century stiff vellum, edges blue-stained, fore-edge of title-leaf reinforced, first 6 leaves strengthened along gutter margins, some soiling, a few leaves browned, occasional ink doodles and stains . Title in red and black, numerous woodcuts in text of plants, animals and distilling apparatus, woodcut printer's device at end. Benzing, Ryff , 157; Nissen BBI 270n; NLM/Durling 764. Late (and apparently the last) edition of the ever-popular Kleines Destillierbuch , edited by Walter Hermann Ryff and illustrated with a variety of woodcuts from the impressive stock of the Egenolff publishing house, the plant cuts nearly all pirated copies of the woodcuts from the classic sixteenth-century herbals of Fuchs and Brunfels, previously used in Egenolph's editions of Lonitzer, Dioscorides, Rösslin and Dorsten. Provenance : Early ownership inscription of Abraham Hornick, later signature of Rösler -- Ignaz Dominik Graf von Chorinski, of Bohemia, bookplate -- Robert Honeyman IV, signature on front flyleaf (sale, Sotheby's London, 30-31 October 1978, lot 532) -- Robert de Belder.