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213
Sept 85
Dr Eichenberger
Bienwil am See
SF 100 = $37
Gart der Gesundheit [Hortus Sanitatis] German.
Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 31 March 1487. fo
Ref: Goff F103 H. 8952 BMC II 535 B.26, Schr 4338
Cop: Mmu (P) L. (colored + rubricated $1500.) Biij
p. 196
248 leaves, the last blank. 2 col. 4a, 39-40 lines 218x134mm
Types: 147. headings; 109 text. Capital spaces. with a full
page woodcut on I6 + many smaller cuts.
147 - church, title + heading type, Venetian in character.
In use '86-88.
109 - German text type. In use 1484-88 in 1492+3.

Dinckmut's regular activity as a printer seems to have
begun about 1482, in which year he printed at least
4 books. His output became smaller at the end of the
80's but he was still printing in 1496. He left Ulm in
1499.
Hunt #6 - 38 lines on lI verso, 401. on leaf a 4 recto
Chapt. 12 is wrongly numbered XI; 321 is CCCXXVi.
Part I contains the foreward. Part 2 contains chapt. I-
CCCCXXV on plants; + parts 3-5 contain indices + the
tract on wine. About 400 woodcuts of plants + animals
in text, smaller than those in the 1485 ed.
-leaf 10 1/2 x 7 1/8."
Chapt (373) Chapt. ccclxxiii Estzwobel
Zwabel
Squilla, Latin Scilla, German Meu Zwibel (See Onion).
Urginea maritima, p. 135 Of See Onion (white sea daffodill)
(374) Capitulum ccclxxiiii Sandelholtz.
Sandelum p. 1388 Gerards Herbal, Santalum - white + red
Sandal wood. (1597) Of Saunders.
(375) Sene allso genannt p. 1113 Of Sene. Latin Actuarius.
Same woodcut 1486 ed. (Schonsperger) Persians Abalzemer.
Sana of the East - yellow flowers
5 Italian Sene