SCHNELLENBERG, TARQUINIUS. Experimenta. Von XX. Pestilienz Wurzeln und Kreutern, Wie sie alle und ein jegliches besonder, Für Gifft unnd Pestilenz gebraucht mögen weden... Sampt viel andern heilsamen tugenten und wirckungen Deutsche recepta, Auch der Kreuter gestalt und eigenschafft... Frankfurt: Weygand Han, [1546]. 8vo, 149 x 96 mm., modern boards imitating vellum from a manuscript missal, E4-5 unopened, original tab on title-page (indicating that it must have been previously bound together with other works), small ink blotch to woodcut on E7r . FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 21 small woodcuts of plants in the text, reduced copies of Weiditz's illustrations of Brunfels, these blocks previously used in Gülfferich's 1546 edition of Brunfels, Kreuterbuch Contrafeyt . Nissen BBI 1786; Pritzel 8298. This popular plague tract went through at least 9 editions before 1700. VERY RARE. Provenance : Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate.
SCHNELLENBERG, TARQUINIUS. Experimenta. Von XX. Pestilienz Wurzeln und Kreutern, Wie sie alle und ein jegliches besonder, Für Gifft unnd Pestilenz gebraucht mögen weden... Sampt viel andern heilsamen tugenten und wirckungen Deutsche recepta, Auch der Kreuter gestalt und eigenschafft... Frankfurt: Weygand Han, [1546]. 8vo, 149 x 96 mm., modern boards imitating vellum from a manuscript missal, E4-5 unopened, original tab on title-page (indicating that it must have been previously bound together with other works), small ink blotch to woodcut on E7r . FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 21 small woodcuts of plants in the text, reduced copies of Weiditz's illustrations of Brunfels, these blocks previously used in Gülfferich's 1546 edition of Brunfels, Kreuterbuch Contrafeyt . Nissen BBI 1786; Pritzel 8298. This popular plague tract went through at least 9 editions before 1700. VERY RARE. Provenance : Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate.
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