Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam.

Add: De mirabilibus mundi.

Augsburg:  Johann Schaur, 29 Aug. 1496.
4to.   a-b8 c-e6.   [34] leaves.
ISTC ia00263000; GW 628; Goff A263; BMC II 393 (IA. 6829); BSB-Ink A-178.

GIP number: A26
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-a.28 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791-1858), Professor of Botany, Königsberg:  signature on front free endpaper “E. Meyer 1840”.
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), German botanist and explorer:  book label on front pastedown.
J.B. Holzinger (fl. 1882):  circular bookplate on front pastedown “Biblioth. Dris J.B. Holzinger” (obscuring an ink inscription).
Jacques Rosenthal (1854-1937), bookseller, Munich:  sold book to John Ferguson;  extract from a German bookseller’s printed catalogue (item 12) mounted on front pastedown - probably from a Rosenthal catalogue.
John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow:  Ferguson’s pencil acquisition note on front pastedown “John Ferguson 11. Dec. 1905” and his note of his supplier on rear pastedown “J. Rosenthal”.
University of Glasgow:  Ferguson collection purchase, 1921.
Binding: Germany, 19th-century cream paper-covered boards; manuscript spine title; small paper label on front cover with manuscript number ‘12’. Size: 202 x 146 mm.
Leaf size: 197 x 141 mm.
Annotations: Textual correction on a2r;  single marginal annotation on a3r;  occasional underlining.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: None.

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