HORTUS SANITATIS

Lot 131
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1514535
Lot 131 | HORTUS SANITATIS
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
HORTUS SANITATIS
Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511.
The fifth edition of the Latin text; the first edition printed in Italy. The blocks are reverse copies of Johann Prüss’s c.1496 Strasbourg cuts, themselves copies of the woodcuts in the first edition printed in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491. Two full-page cuts depict physicians in consultation, one based on that in Ketham's Fascicolo di medicina, the other repeated from a 1504 Venice edition of Guillelmus de Saliceto, Chirurgia. Original to this edition, as a supplement to the section De urinis, is the pseudo-Galen tract De facile acquisibilibus. Composition was divided between Benalius's and Tacuinus's shops, the former setting 30 of the quires, and the latter 28. The fine four-part title-page border with dolphins was part of Tacuinus's stock, first used by him a few months earlier for his edition of Vitruvius. Mortimer calls it 'one of the most influential pieces of [book] ornamentation of the sixteenth century', being copied in several formats by many other Renaissance printers. Adams H-1016; Durling 2468; Essling 1723; Hunt 1:12; Mortimer Italian 238; Nissen BBI 2368; Sander 3470.

Chancery folio (286 x 198mm). 367 (of 368) leaves (without final blank). Double column, 53 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guides. Title within a decorative woodcut border, 3 full-page woodcuts and more than 1,000 column-width cuts of plants, animals and genre images, one page of 18th-century manuscript notes in Italian bound in after the ‘Tractatus de lapidibus’ (some leaves lightly browned, occasional wormholes, title supplied from a slightly shorter copy with marginal repairs and worming, aa1 and aa6 with marginal repairs and restoration [not affecting text] and slightly shorter [probably supplied], repaired tears to U8 and cc6, a few small wormholes to final 3 text leaves, final leaf with repairs to upper corner and fore-edge). Crushed brown morocco by Douglas Cockerell, stamped with his monogram and dated 1903 on lower turn-in (binding rubbed and bumped with slight wear to heads of joints). Provenance: Albert John Chalmers (British colonial physician and pioneer in tropical medicine research, 1870-1920; bookplate and plate recording bequest from Mrs Chalmers in the year of his death, to:) – Royal Society of Medicine.
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