



MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA) De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol., Venice, Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604
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MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA)
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The scarce and well regarded third Italian language edition of the 'great Mattioli', with the full series of magnificent large woodcuts. Mattioli (1500-1577) was a Sienese physician and distinguished phytologist, and, ostensibly translating Dioscorides, filled in the gaps, adding a vast commentary along with hundreds of new medicinal plants. The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech), and the 1563 New Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but this edition includes the equally fine cuts from the 1565 edition of the enlarged work which include zoological subjects. Included at the end is the 12-page Del modo di distillare le acque da tutte le piante et come vi si possino conservare i loro veri odori & sapori.
Provenance: 'Ex libris Fisici [-Physici] Palearii', ownership inscriptions on title-page and front free nedpaper of volume 2.