Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
[RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN.] Kurtzes Handbüchlin, und Experiment, viler Artzneyen, durch den gantzen Cörper dess Menschens . . . durch Q. Apollinarem [pseud.] an Tag gegeben. Botanical text woodcuts throughout. [8], 198, [2] leaves, including 2 blanks at end. bound with: WEYER [or WIER], JOHANN. Artzney Buch: von etlichen biss anher unbekandten unnd unbeschriebenen Kranckheiten. 5 woodcut text illustrations. [14], 115, [3] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 146x96 mm, contemporary Wittenberg binding by Adam or Abraham Müller of blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, covers decorated with Faith/Patience/Charity/Hope roll around panel filled with repeated impressions of foliate tools; contents toned with marginal dampstaining and soiling, scattered ink stains, clean tear in F7 in the first work, later owner's pencil scrawls on rear endpapers. Frankfurt am Main: (Paul Reffeler for Hartmann Hahn), 1579; (Nicolaus Basse), 1583

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Later edition of a popular collection of herbal remedies originally published in 1549, bound with the second edition in German of a 1567 Latin treatise on rare and previously undescribed diseases. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, 275.