Albertus Magnus | First Manger edition of Ryff’s enduring popularization of Albertus Magnus, Augsburg, 1571

Albertus Magnus

Ein newer Albertus Magnus von Weybern und Geburten der Kinder, sampt ihren Artzneyen. Auch von tugenden etlicher fürnemer Kreüter, und von Krafft der Edlen Gestein. Von Art und Natur etlicher Their. Mit sampt einem bewerten Regiment für die Pestilentz. Alles aus new gebessert durch Q. Apollinarem [that is, Walther Hermann Ryff]. (Augsburg: Michael Manger,) 1571

4to (191 x 142 mm). Gothic types. Title printed in red and black within fine woodcut border incorporating portraits of Hippocrates, Galen, Pliny and others, 63 woodcut text illustrations (including 22 botanical subjects, 17 obstetrical subjects, 21 zoological figures, and a blood-letting man); scattered staining, chiefly marginal. Modern vellum over marbled boards, early red edges, plain endpapers.

First Manger edition of Ryff’s enduring popularization of Albertus Magnus. Manger continued to issue the work until 1591. Rare: Rare Book Hub records no other copies of the 1571 edition.

REFERENCES

Benzing 19. This edition not in Adams, Durling, Nissen BBI, Wellcome, or Waller

PROVENANCE

Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate) — Warren G. Smirl, M.D. (Sotheby’s London, 11 November 1994, lot 8)