PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1535-1615). Phytognomonica . Naples: Horatio Salviani, 1588. 2 o (300 x 203 mm). Title within woodcut scrollwork border in four parts, portrait of the author on verso, numerous woodcuts of plants and animals in text, woodcut headpieces and initials, some historiated. (Some minor worming on upper gutter margin, some very pale dampstains.) Seventeenth-century Italian morocco, covers with gilt-ruled and pointelle border and central gilt ornament, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION, earliest issue (title dated 1588). In Phytognomonica , Porta develops the doctrine known as signatures, in which the external form of a plant indicates its medicinal properties. This copy without additional signatures A-C 4 at end containing the index which is found in some copies (see Mortimer 399 and note). Adams P-1938 (collates as this copy); Harvard/Mortimer Italian 399; Hunt 158; Nissen BBI 463; Norman 1724.
PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1535-1615). Phytognomonica . Naples: Horatio Salviani, 1588. 2 o (300 x 203 mm). Title within woodcut scrollwork border in four parts, portrait of the author on verso, numerous woodcuts of plants and animals in text, woodcut headpieces and initials, some historiated. (Some minor worming on upper gutter margin, some very pale dampstains.) Seventeenth-century Italian morocco, covers with gilt-ruled and pointelle border and central gilt ornament, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION, earliest issue (title dated 1588). In Phytognomonica , Porta develops the doctrine known as signatures, in which the external form of a plant indicates its medicinal properties. This copy without additional signatures A-C 4 at end containing the index which is found in some copies (see Mortimer 399 and note). Adams P-1938 (collates as this copy); Harvard/Mortimer Italian 399; Hunt 158; Nissen BBI 463; Norman 1724.
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