Matthiolus,P.A.
I discorsi ne i sei libri della materia medicinale. Venice, V.Valgrisi 1559. fol. With woodcut printer's mark on the back and numerous woodcuts in the text. 60 fol., 744 (instead of 802) p. Mod. Hprgt. with slipcase. Cf. Pritzel 5987, Hirsch IV, 167, Nissen BBI 1304 (edition 1555). - "Matthiolus, an Italian physician and scholar of rank, quite outstanding humanist, went back in his herbal books - in accordance with the world of thought of the Renaissance - to the classical knowledge, especially to Dioscorides. His books appealed especially to the learned world.... By his works all earlier works became superfluous for the learned and were set aside as outlived" (Heilmann, Kräuterbücher, p. 262) - pp. 745-802 omitted. At the upper margin moderately fl. (end stronger), partly slight marginal tears, in places somewhat fl.
