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DIOSCORIDES, Pedacius (fl.54-68). De materia medica libri sex, in Greek. Edited by Girolamo Rossi and Francesco Torresani. Venice: Aldine Press, June 1518.
Aldine 8 (208 x 118mm). Aldine device 3 on title, repeated on final verso. Contents and dedication in italic type, text in Greek, initial spaces with guide-letter. 35 lines and headline. Without blank *12. (Very light soiling to title.) 18th-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges (tiny wormholes in spine, light wear at extremities). Provenance: early inscription trimmed from title, occasional early annotations (slightly trimmed); C. Lloyd (modern flyleaf inscription).
Second edition in Greek of 'the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity' (Norman-Garrison-Morton 1786). This edition, the second printed by Aldus, is 'purer' than the first, with the interpolated passages excised and printed together on fos. 214-37. An anonymous poem at the end contains descriptions of a further 12 plants. Adams D-653; Ahmanson-Murphy 146; Durling 1133; Renouard Alde 82:2.
Aldine 8 (208 x 118mm). Aldine device 3 on title, repeated on final verso. Contents and dedication in italic type, text in Greek, initial spaces with guide-letter. 35 lines and headline. Without blank *12. (Very light soiling to title.) 18th-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges (tiny wormholes in spine, light wear at extremities). Provenance: early inscription trimmed from title, occasional early annotations (slightly trimmed); C. Lloyd (modern flyleaf inscription).
Second edition in Greek of 'the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity' (Norman-Garrison-Morton 1786). This edition, the second printed by Aldus, is 'purer' than the first, with the interpolated passages excised and printed together on fos. 214-37. An anonymous poem at the end contains descriptions of a further 12 plants. Adams D-653; Ahmanson-Murphy 146; Durling 1133; Renouard Alde 82:2.