[HERBALS]. DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. De Materia Medica Libri sex. Eiusdem de venenatis animalibus libri [in Greek]. Basel: Johannes Bebel, 1529. 4to, 200 x 124 mm., later calf; hinges cracked, a little soiling, minor marginal browning. This edition is based textually and typographically on the 1518 Aldine edition. Adams D-654. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES. De Medica Materia libri sex... Basel: Isingrin, 1542. 8vo, 162 x 102 mm., later half vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title. See NLM/Durling 1149 (a 1539 edition). KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DODOENS, REMBERT. Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia... Antwerp: Plantin, 1569; [bound with:] HAWENREUTER, JOHANN LUDWIG. Compendium Physicae... Strassburg: A. Bertram, 1589. Together 2 works in one, 8vo, 161 x 96 mm., contemporary vellum. Second edition (first 1568) of first work, with revised text and some alterations of the illustrations. Woodcut printer's device on title and 109 woodcuts (103 re-used from the first edition, 5 redrawn and one new one added). Hunt 104; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1486. The second work is a commentary on Aristotle and contains a folding table. "Johannis Rosie Ambergensis," inscription on title of first work (dated 1590?); KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (3)

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[HERBALS]. DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. De Materia Medica Libri sex. Eiusdem de venenatis animalibus libri [in Greek]. Basel: Johannes Bebel, 1529. 4to, 200 x 124 mm., later calf; hinges cracked, a little soiling, minor marginal browning. This edition is based textually and typographically on the 1518 Aldine edition. Adams D-654. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES. De Medica Materia libri sex... Basel: Isingrin, 1542. 8vo, 162 x 102 mm., later half vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title. See NLM/Durling 1149 (a 1539 edition). KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DODOENS, REMBERT. Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia... Antwerp: Plantin, 1569; [bound with:] HAWENREUTER, JOHANN LUDWIG. Compendium Physicae... Strassburg: A. Bertram, 1589. Together 2 works in one, 8vo, 161 x 96 mm., contemporary vellum. Second edition (first 1568) of first work, with revised text and some alterations of the illustrations. Woodcut printer's device on title and 109 woodcuts (103 re-used from the first edition, 5 redrawn and one new one added). Hunt 104; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1486. The second work is a commentary on Aristotle and contains a folding table. "Johannis Rosie Ambergensis," inscription on title of first work (dated 1590?); KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (3)

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