Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Wien); Gilhofer, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat; Gilhofer & Ranschburg: Katalog (Nr. 215): A fine collection of early printed books of the XVth and XVIth century: including the following choice pieces mostly bound in original bindings The canon of Avicenna, Padua 1479, The Eggerstein and the Rusch-Bible, both ab. 1468 ... : illustrated XVIth century books including the first Bible in Greek . (Wien: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1929)

INCUNABULA

87 SALADINUS DE ESCULO, SEU ASCULO. Compendium aro-
matariorum. Bologna, (Hendrik of Haarlem and Johannes Wal-
beck) for Benedictus Hectoris, 1488.
Fol. Gothic char., 2 col., 44 lines, 2Q unn. leaves (the last
blank wanting), with sign. With the device of Benedictus
Hectoris at end. Old MS. veil. Frs. 3000.—
Hain (not seen)-Cop. 14131. Reichling VI, p. 140. Proctor 6561.
The extremely rare EDITIO PRINCEPS of a very interesting and then
highly esteemed pharmaceutical manual, containing explications of
numerous different drugs, powders, pills, oils, ointments, &c. and their
combinations.
The author Saladin of Asculo lived at the beginning of the 14th
century and was court-physician to the prince John Anton de Balza Ursinus
of Taranto.
The book is printed with the types 1 and 2 of a very scarce press
of Bologna, whidi possessed Hendrik of Haarlem, a wandering printer. He
worked at first at Bologna in 1485, then he went to Venice and Siena and from
there against to Bologna in 1482, where he produced not more than about half
a dozen books in partnership with Johannes Walbeck from Nordlingen.
Large and good copy, with old ms. marginal notes, the first 1.
si. spotted.
No copy in U. S. A. acc. to Census.
No copy in the public libraries of Berlin and the Bodleian Library.
,88 SAVONAROLA, JOH. MICHAEL. De pulsibus, urinis et egesti-
onibus. Venice, Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 1497.
Fol. Roman type, 2 col., 61 lines, 44 unn. leaves with sign.
Old vellum. Frs. 1200.—
Hain*-Cop. 14491• Proctor 5240- Brit. Mus. Cat. V, p. 470.
Very important medical work written by the grandfather of the famous
martyr Girolamo Savonarola. He was a Paduan physician of much repute and
learning and had settled at Ferrara. He lived from ca. 1382 to ca. 1462.
This important work is of especial character, as containing only tracts on
pulse, the qualities of urine and on faecal matters and motion.
Our copy of this curious, medical work is in a very fine and clean
state of preservation.

GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.