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Mattioli,P.A. Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anarzabei de medica materia. 2 vols. in 1 vol. Venice, V. Valgrisi, 1558. 4°. With 2 woodcut printer's marks and several hundred text woodcuts. 50 vols, 776, 50 pp; blind-printed pigskin binding over wooden boards. - Incomplete, damages and defects; some pages and illustrations missing. Nissen 1305; Pritzel 5985; STC 218; Adams D 667; Durling 385 - The pharmacology of the Greek physician Dioscorides is considered one of the most influential works in the history of medicine and pharmacology. The adaptation by the Italian physician and botanist P. A. Mattioli (1501-1578) was first published in Latin by Valgrisi in 1554; the second part of the present version contains a justification of Dioscorides' work by Amato Lusitano (Joao Rodrigues). The woodcuts show animals as well as medicinal plants.
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Mattioli,P.A. Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anarzabei de medica materia. 2 vols. in 1 vol. Venice, V. Valgrisi, 1558. 4°. With 2 woodcut printer's marks and several hundred text woodcuts. 50 vols, 776, 50 pp; blind-printed pigskin binding over wooden boards. - Incomplete, damages and defects; some pages and illustrations missing. Nissen 1305; Pritzel 5985; STC 218; Adams D 667; Durling 385 - The pharmacology of the Greek physician Dioscorides is considered one of the most influential works in the history of medicine and pharmacology. The adaptation by the Italian physician and botanist P. A. Mattioli (1501-1578) was first published in Latin by Valgrisi in 1554; the second part of the present version contains a justification of Dioscorides' work by Amato Lusitano (Joao Rodrigues). The woodcuts show animals as well as medicinal plants.
