HORTUS SANITATIS. — Ortus sanitatis. No place, no date [Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, no later than 1498]. Folio, Bradel-style cardboard binding, plain spine, red…

HORTUS SANITATIS. — Ortus sanitatis. No place, no date [Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, no later than 1498]. Folio, Bradel-style cardboard binding, plain spine, red title label, date “1485” in ink at the top, red edges (late 18th-century binding). A very rare incunabulum edition of the *Hortus sanitatis*. (GW, 13549. - HC, 8942*. - Goff, H488. - Davies, Fairfax Murray: *German*, vol. I, pp. 342–344.) A comprehensive compilation of all medieval knowledge in the fields of botany, zoology, and

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