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[HERBALS]. MATTHIOLI, PIER ANDREA. Les Commentaires...sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride, Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, 1620. Folio, 338 x 226 mm., later half vellum and speckled paper boards, light marginal stains, titlepage in red and black with woodcut portrait of the author (repeated at end), small woodcuts. Nissen 1312 -- CHABRÉE, DOMINIQUE. Omnium stirpium icones et sciagraphia, Geneva: Samuel de Tournes, 1678 (engraved title dated 1666). Folio, 355 x 236 mm., contemporary vellum-backed paper boards, top edge trimmed, others uncut, lightly rubbed, engraved titlepage signed "Fr. Diodati 1666," small woodcuts in the text. See Hunt 304 (1666 edn.), Nissen 345 -- DURANTE. CASTORE. Herbario nuovo...con figure, Venice: Michele Hertz, 1717. Folio, 322 x 225 mm., contemporary vellum, first two gatherings quire a bit loose in binding, titlepage printed in red and black with engraved device, column-width woodcuts -- -- ZWINGER, THEODOR. Theatrum botanicum...neu vollkommenes Kraueter-Buch, Basel: Jacob Bertsche, 1696. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 355 x 222mm., vellum, neatly rebacked, later endleaves, engraved frontispiece after Gerard de Lairesse, typographic title in red and black, large folding engraved portrait of Zwinger, numerous woodcuts. Nissen 1311 -- BAUHIN, CASPAR. Theatri botanici, Basel: Joannis Regis, 1671. 2 vols. in 1, 4to, 242 x 183 mm., vellum, foxing and browning, titlepage in red and black, column-width woodcuts. Ed. Bonnet bookplate. Hunt 318; Stafleu & Cown 367. Together 5 vols.. (5)