MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. De I Discorsi de...nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale. Venice: Appresso Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604. Folio, 332 x 228 mm., contemporary vellum over boards, covers blind-ruled with central blindstamped ornament, covers bowed slightly; title laid down, some pale dampstaining at beginning, some minor marginal stains. Third Italian language edition of the "grand" Mattioli with the large woocuts. Printer's woodcut device on title and at end, over 950 large woodcuts in text. Nissen BBI 1304.

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MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. De I Discorsi de...nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale. Venice: Appresso Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604. Folio, 332 x 228 mm., contemporary vellum over boards, covers blind-ruled with central blindstamped ornament, covers bowed slightly; title laid down, some pale dampstaining at beginning, some minor marginal stains. Third Italian language edition of the "grand" Mattioli with the large woocuts. Printer's woodcut device on title and at end, over 950 large woodcuts in text. Nissen BBI 1304.

Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate.

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