Rare treatise on the perennial herb Geum Urbanum with 123 observations. A fine copy. Not in BMC NH, Pritzel, STC Bethesda, Waller. Seville, Jacob Cromberger, 1519. Heritage Union Cat.
All editions are extremely rare.
The woodcut on the title portrays Saints Cosmas and Damian in a tiled colonnade, and the border incorporates two coats of arms, including that of the Spanish royal house. The only other copy recorded is at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. Jacob Cromberger's excellent printing skills can be clearly seen in the two columns of textura type with a larger textura for chapter headings, running heads and most of the title, a still larger textura for the first few words of the title, and the numeous woodcut initials and the woodcuts on the title-page. The vellum binding, with traces of an old manuscript title on the spine, is approximately contemporary, but has been added recently, and the endpapers are probably eighteenth-century. An extremely rare Spanish post-incunable.