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    Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis. De animalibus [et] reptilibus de auibus et volatilibus de piscibus [et] natatilibus de lapidibus [et] in terre venis nasce[n]tibus de vrinis et ea[rum] speciebus tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus

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    With three full-page woodcuts, and 1061 illustrations of plants, animals and minerals. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.8 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a⁸ b-k⁶ l⁸ m-r⁶ s⁸ t-z⁶ 2A⁶ 2B⁸ 2C-2E⁶ 2F⁸ 2G-2I⁶ A⁸ B-C⁶ D⁸ E-H⁶ I⁸ K-Q⁶ R⁸ S-T⁸ V⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴ 2c-2e⁶. "Tractatus de animalibus" and "Tractatus de urinis" have separate half-titles on leaves A1r and 2a1r respectively. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; white deerskin[?] spine; label with ms. title on front. In box.

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    Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 19.5 cm. Text printed in double columns; 40 lines per col.; col. width: 6.6 cm.; area of text: 20 x 14.1 cm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Includes 11 full-page woodcut illustrations: Almighty God seated in glory (a1v); the creation of angels and fall of demons (a8v); the creation of Eve and anatomical man (c4v); the ages of man, a physician and surgeon attending patients (m7v); the earth and the spheres ([long s]7v); occupations of the months (u2v); birds (y7v); fishes ([z with a crossbar]7v); a landscape showing a river and towns, etc. (A1v); trees and plants (F1v); and animals and reptiles (Q2v). Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [rounded r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [z with crossbar]⁸ [con]⁶ ẽ⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸. (2a1, ẽ6, and 2E8 blank). Imperfect: blank leaves 2a1, ẽ6 and 2E8 lacking. Binding error: gatherings 2a and 2b misbound at end. Large initial on leaf a2r in blue and red; subsequent initials in red. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Club Bindery 1899.

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  • Hie nach volgt das buch der natur. : Innhaltende zum ersten vo[n] eigenschafft vnd natur dess menschen. Darnach von der natur vn[d] eigenschafft dess hymels. d[e] tier. des gefugels. der kreüter. d[e] stein. vn[d] von vilandern natürlichen dingen

    Hie nach volgt das buch der natur. : Innhaltende zum ersten vo[n] eigenschafft vnd natur dess menschen. Darnach von der natur vn[d] eigenschafft dess hymels. d[e] tier. des gefugels. der kreüter. d[e] stein. vn[d] von vilandern natürlichen dingen

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    Includes fourteen full page woodcut illustrations. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.6 x 19 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 20.5 x 12.9. Woodcut initials. Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-z⁶ A-E⁶ (E6 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1 and B1 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Binding: contemporary German half blindstamped calfskin and beech boards.

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  • Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum]

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    An English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum by John Trevisa. Title page is xylographic (white on black). Caption title on leaf A2r reads: Prologue of the translatour. True it is· that after the noble [and] experte doctryne . The last leaf contains William Caxton's device, and on the verso a copy of the title-page cut. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.9 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Woodcut initials. Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ b⁶ c-z⁸ [et]⁶ [con]⁸ A-V⁸ X-Z⁶ 2a-2c⁸ 2d-2g⁶ 2h-2m⁸ 2n⁴ 2o⁶. Huntington Library copy has gathering A inlaid. Imperfect: leaf A1 (blank) lacking; leaves 2o4-2o6 repaired at inner margin. Binding: richly inlaid and onlaid brown morocco by the Club Bindery, Leon Maillard, finisher. In case.

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  • El libro de propietatibus rerum

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    Table following title page begins: "Comie[n]ça la tabla del libro del [sic] propietatibus rerum." Incipit at head of leaf a1r: Comiensa el libro delas propiedades delas cosas. Translated by Vicente de Burgos. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.6 x 21.9 cm. Printed in 2 columns (table of contents, 3 columns; prologue in a single column). Gothic type, 45-49 lines. Initial spaces with guide letters at beginning of books and in gatherings 2a-2g; woodcut ornamental initials elsewhere. Printer's device on last page following colophon. Illustrations: 18 large woodcuts, 13 within double-line borders (including 1 repeat and 1 cut composed of six small sections) and 5 within single-line borders (including arms of Castile and Aragon on title page, measuring 154 x 136 mm), and 6 small woodcut diagrams. The 17 cuts in the text, prefixed to books 2-17 and 19, are on leaves a6, c1, d6, e8, k2, l6, o6, C2, D3, D6, E5, F8, G8 (repeated from D3), I1, L4, M8 and 2m5. The diagrams are on leaves c3 (3 geometrical), c8 (2 optical) and I1 (schematic map of the world). Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁶ a-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ 2a⁶ 2b-2e⁸ 2f-2g⁶ 2h-2o⁸ 2p⁴. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son.

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  • Questiones subtilissime Iohannis Sermonete super lib[rum] afforismo[rum] eiusdem super librum tegni

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    A commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms and Galen's Tegni; some fragments of Hippocrates's text, translated into Latin, are included. Edited by Johannes Antonius Terzagus. The commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms is incomplete: although the signed gatherings agree with the printed register and the text between 2C8v and 2D1r is consistent, the text between 2D6v (which ends with "morbus aut") and 2E1r (which begins the commentary on Galen's Tegni) is not. Super-chancery folio, with paper measuring 31.9 x 21.4 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 66 lines per column; col. width: 7.8 mm.; area of text: 24.1 x 16.3 cm. With paragraph marks, headlines, and woodcut initials; without catchwords. Publisher's device on verso of leaf 73. Foliation errors: leaves 30 and 49 misnumbered as 32 and 49, respectively. Signatures: 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ 2E-2H⁸ 2I-2K⁶ (2K6 blank). Modern binding using a leaf from a medieval Italian[?] antiphonal manuscript as covering.

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