Wirsung, Christof (1500 or 1505-1571) Praxis Medicinae Universalis.
London: Edmund Bollifant, 1598.
First edition in English, folio; printer's woodcut device to title (title fragmentary along edges, chipped with loss to blank margins, mounted), first twenty pages with older glassine paper repairs along fore-edges; strong waterstaining to first fifty pages, other scattered tears, repairs, and stains; bound in full later leather scratched and rubbed, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Wirsung's compendium of thousands of health remedies also includes instructions for the preservation of fruits, roots, flowers, and other foods.
STC 25862; ESTC S105368, showing six copies in U.S. libraries.
