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BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. A Most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothecarye. 1561 Lacks the last 9 leaves.

BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. A Most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothecarye, or homely physick booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush. Leaves 1-37 (of 46) only. Folio, disbound; dampstaining throughout, paper corrosion along fore edges touching some sidenotes, title and next leaf unevenly trimmed in outer margin. Cologne: [heirs of] Arnold Birckman, 1561

  • Notes: first edition in english, translated from the German version of Brunschwig''s Thesaurus pauperum, a pharmacopoeia for the poor originally appended to his 1507 Liber de arte distillandi de compositis. Durling 757; Heirs of Hippocrates 140; STC 13433.
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