Ellen Shaffer
The Garden of Health. An Account of Two Herbals. The Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. , 1957
(San Francisco): Book Club of California
One of 300 copies.
3050
Quarto. 41 pp. Printed by Lawton Kennedy for the Book Club of California. With an original leaf from the Hortus Sanitatis, printed by Johann Pruss in Strassburg in 1499, from...
Quarto. 41 pp. Printed by Lawton Kennedy for the Book Club of California. With an original leaf from the Hortus Sanitatis, printed by Johann Pruss in Strassburg in 1499, from a section entitled "De Herbis" and illustrated with 2 woodcuts. Accompanying essay illustrated throughout with reproductions of woodcuts taken from 15th century editions of the herbals. Extremely fine in linen-backed boards, with "the female mandrake" (discussed within) printed on the front cover. Announcement and original order form laid-in. Bookplate.
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