Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN.] Kurtzes Hand-Büchlein, und Experiment, vieler Artzneyen, durch den gantzen Cörper dess Menschens . . . durch den hochgelehrten Q. Apollinarem [pseud.] selbs erfahren und bewehrt. Numerous woodcut botanical illustrations. [2], 212, [17] (of [18]) leaves; lacks last (blank?) leaf. 8vo, 152x91 mm, remboîtage of earlier manuscript vellum over boards, worn, top of spine chipped, endpapers conspicuously renewed; contents toned and soiled with varying marginal dampstaining, wormtrail through leaves 54-60 minimally impairing legibility. Strassburg: Josias Städel, 1677

Additional Details

Frequently reprinted collection of herbal remedies originally published in 1549.