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Hortus Sanitatis Inkunabel Incunable Strasbourg Botanik Encyclopedia 1497

£38,438.65

Strasbourg, Johann Prüss (1497). 17th century leather binding [28,5 x 20 cm] with gilded element at the center of the front and back covers; with title on gilted spine: „Tractat de herbis“. In-folio. 360 unnumbered leaves. Text divided into two columns/page (4 columns/page in the case of the register). With over 1050 in-text woodcuts [ca. 11 x 7 cm] and 3 full-page woodcuts. With some decorative margin notes (images of human heads or hands pointing toward a certain paragraph). This very rare Incunable was first published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, in the year 1491 (Hain 8940. GW 13549).