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The garden of health; an account of two herbals, the Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus sanitatis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z241.H82 S5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-1994.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gart der Gesundheit.
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Botany, Medical.
- Herbs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Shaffer, Ellen (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 41 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1957.
- Notes:
- "300 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy."
- Original leaf from the Hortus sanitatis, 1499, inserted in front of book.
- "A checklist of editions printed before 1550": p. [39]-41.
- OCLC:
- 3238548
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