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MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577). Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anzarbei de Medica Materia. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1560.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (313 x 207mm). Titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations of plants, mammals, fish and shells throughout, those of plants carefully coloured by a later hand. (Some light soiling, a few leaves with light marginal dampstains.) 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Leonardus a Botallis of Asti (inscription on title, marginal annotations, partially washed out); marginal annotations in French in an unidentified hand.
An extensively illustrated edition of Mattioli's commentary on Dioscorides's De Materia Medica, first published by Valgrisi in 1554. As usual, this edition is bound with Mattioli's Apologia adversus Amathum Lusitanum, published by Valgrisi in 1559. Adams D-669; cf. Mortimer Italian 294; Stafleu and Cowan III, p. 372.; Hunt I, pp. liii-liv.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (313 x 207mm). Titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations of plants, mammals, fish and shells throughout, those of plants carefully coloured by a later hand. (Some light soiling, a few leaves with light marginal dampstains.) 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Leonardus a Botallis of Asti (inscription on title, marginal annotations, partially washed out); marginal annotations in French in an unidentified hand.
An extensively illustrated edition of Mattioli's commentary on Dioscorides's De Materia Medica, first published by Valgrisi in 1554. As usual, this edition is bound with Mattioli's Apologia adversus Amathum Lusitanum, published by Valgrisi in 1559. Adams D-669; cf. Mortimer Italian 294; Stafleu and Cowan III, p. 372.; Hunt I, pp. liii-liv.