A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke / for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye / Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Jhon Hollybush.

Imprinted at Collen : By Arnold Birckman [Heirs of Arnold Birckman], 1561.

45 pages, 1 unnumbered leaves ; (6mo). 30 cm

A translation of HIS Thesaurus pauperum, first published as pt. 5 of Liber de arte distillandi de compositis, also called Grosses Destillierbuch.

Copy 1. Note: Last 4 leaves wanting. Collation: a-g6 h4 (h2-4 wanting, supplied in photocopy). Bound with: Turner, W. A booke of the natures and properties as well of the bathes in England (1562). Collation: [A4] (A1-4 wanting, supplied in photocopy) B-D6 (D6 wanting, blank).

Copy 2. Note: Wanting ci; diiii; dv; dvi; e; eii. Supplied in photocopy.

Copy 3. Note: Wanting: h1-4. Supplied in photocopy.

Copy 4. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

Copy 5. Imperfect: lacks f2-f5, g1, g6, h1-h4. Missing leaves supplied in photocopy. Bound with: Turner, W. The first and seconde partes of the Herbal. 1568.

Copy 6. Very defective throughout. Wanting a1-2, a5, b2, f2, all after f4. Bound with: Turner, W. The first and seconde partes of the Herbal. 1568. Disbound; boards only present.

STC 13433

ESTC S122407

STC (2nd ed.), 13433