Lot 17

Lot 17

[HERBAL] -- [BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. SHAFFER, Ellen. The Garden of Health: An Account of Two Herbals, The Gart des Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. [San Francisco:] Lawton Kennedy for Book Club of California, 1957.

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[HERBAL] -- [BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. SHAFFER, Ellen. The Garden of Health: An Account of Two Herbals, The Gart des Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. [San Francisco:] Lawton Kennedy for Book Club of California, 1957.

4to. ORIGINAL LEAF from the Hortus Sanitatis (Strasbourg, 1499) tipped in. Title printed in red, green and black; reproductions of woodcuts throughout. Original linen-backed red boards; original plain dust jacket.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Original prospectus laid in. BCC 96.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler

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