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.
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.
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