Dibner Library copy is imperfect, with the title and colophon leaves wanting. Title and imprint information taken from the OCLC and Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke records for this edition

Leaf [1a] (t. p.) : Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus. Das Buch der rechten Kunst zu distilieren die eintzigë Ding von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vn̄ Wund Artzot der keiserlichē fryē Statt Strassburg

Leaves printed on both sides

Text in double columns, with 46 or 47 lines per page

Initials

Illustrated with numerous woodcuts

Signatures: A-D8 E-Z6 2A-2O6

citation/reference: Hain 4021

citation/reference: Hain-Copinger 4021

citation/reference: GW 5595

citation/reference: Proctor 493

citation/reference: Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 37

citation/reference: Stillwell, M.B. Incunabula in American libraries (1940 ed.), B1089

Hain

Hain-Copinger

GW

Proctor

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Stillwell, M.B. Incunabula in American libraries (1940 ed.)

SCDIRB copy 39088002403905 is imperfect, with many leaves wanting, including the first 16 prelimary leaves and the last 2 leaves at end. Leaves apparently present in the volume (this is not always clear) include: C1-D8, E1-H6, I1, I3, K3-K5[?], L2-L6, M1-O6, Q1-Q2, Q4-Q6, R1-S6, T[2-T6?], V1-V5, X1-Z6, 2A1-2B5[?], 2C1-2N6, 2O1-2O4. Severe cropping affects text, esp. headers and foliation

SCDIRB copy has old hand-coloring on some of the woodcuts

SCDIRB copy has handwritten inscription in ink on front free endpaper: Ex libris Ludovici Choulant, Dresdae, 1828. With handwritten notes in pencil and ink in various hands on endpapers and in margins. A partially legible ownership stamp on the first leaf of text in the volume reads: G. M[unsch?], Köln a. RH

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Herald of Science no. 37, Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has an old blue paperboard binding, with partially-removed gilt-stamp of an unidentified former owner on front and back covers (with crown emblem remaining; repeated in a partially-erased stamp on first page of text in volume), and a later hand-written paper spine label. Housed in a later gray cloth slipcase

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