Brunschwig (Hieronymus) A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye, first edition in English, translated by John Hollybush, collation: a-g⁶ h⁴, lacking final blank leaf, printed in black letter with headlines and some headings in italics and side-notes in roman, large woodcut device on title, some worming throughout, getting heavier towards end, upper corner of g4 defective, affecting pagination, some light browning, light water-stain to upper corners, modern blind-stamped goatskin, [STC 13433], folio, Arnold Birckman, Cologne, 1561.

⁂ Often bound with part 2 of William Turner's A New Herbal (STC 24365). Includes several very early suggestions for the use of medical cannabis ('hempsede') - "If a man haue a sounding or piping in his eares / the same cometh somtyme of a hote slymy fylthynesse / or of a hote slymy moystnesse. He that is so diseased / ought to take pilles de iera picra / & then put oyle of Hempsede warme into his eares / mixt wt a litle vinegre / after yt let him leape vpon hys one legge / vpon that syde / where the disease is / than let hym bowe doune ye eare of that syde / if happely any moysture or fylth would issue out."

A pencil note on front pastedown reads "Bound in my own goat skin bred at Ivel House, Ilchester, Somerset, 1947."

Provenance: "TBS" (old ink monogram at foot of title) .