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MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea. Dei discorsi ... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della Materia Medicinale. Venetia, appresso Felice Valgrisio, 1585. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, 370 x 255 mm. Binding to the arms in coeval flint vellum, cold-stamped fillet frame on the plates, in the center coat of arms of the Strozzi Family with the initials AS, smooth spine with gold friezes, gold lettering on the boards. Pages [160], 672, [4, with Frontispiece of Part Two], 673-1527, [12]. Letterpress embossing to the 3 Frontispieces, ornate capilettera; portrait of the author within oval with splendid border formed of allegorical figures and fruit; over 1000 large 3/4-page woodcuts. Restoration to binding, internally a few pages browned, traces of use and foxing. Rare Italian edition with the complete set of large-format figures. The fine silographs are masterfully engraved by Wolfang Meyerpeck on original drawings by Giorgio Liberale. Mattioli, intending to comment on Dioscorides' work on materia medica, wrote a book that was a huge success throughout Europe and was then reprinted for more than two centuries, becoming a must-have reference for apothecaries, pharmacists, botanists and physicians. More than 1,000 large woodcuts are engraved in this splendid edition, depicting mainly plants, flowers and fruits, but also animals, particularly birds and fish; each illustration is accompanied by a precise description and indications of the corresponding medical and dietary virtues. Two-part edition with continuous register and pagination. This is the second edition in Italian with large figures; the Author's Portrait, appearing for the first time in this edition, is on paper k8v. of part 1. Arber: "with large and very beautiful figures. "At the end the work is accompanied, with its own Frontispiece, by the treatise De Ratione distillandi, also punctually illustrated with 6 apparatus for distilling liquids.Edit 16, CNCE 46810; Adams D 679; BM STC, Italian Books S. 218; Nissen, BBI1304. See Agnes Robertson, Arber, Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670, Cambridge, University press, 1912, p. 82. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, 370 x 255 mm. Contemporary limp vellum gilt with the Strozzi arms on covers with the initials AS, flat spine gilt, gilt edges. Pages [160], 672, [4, with Titlepage of Part two], 673-1527, [12]. Woodcut printer's device on all three title-pages, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within oval with splendid border formed of allegorical figures; over 1000 large 3/4-page woodcuts. Binding repaired at edges with new spine lining, gilt edges a little rubbed, title-page foxed, occasional staining or foxing through much of the volume, a few leaves browned. Rare Italian edition with the complete set of large-format woodcut illustrations. The fine woodcuts are masterfully engraved by Wolfang Meyerpeck on the original drawings by Giorgio Liberale. Mattioli, intending to comment on Dioscorides' work on materia medica, wrote a book that was a huge success throughout Europe and was then reprinted for more than two centuries, becoming a must-have reference for apothecaries, pharmacists, botanists and physicians. More than 1,000 large woodcuts are engraved in this splendid edition, depicting mainly plants, flowers and fruits, but also animals, particularly birds and fish; each illustration is accompanied by a precise description and indications of the corresponding medical and dietary virtues. Two-part edition with continuous register and pagination. This is the second edition in Italian with large woodcuts; the Portrait of the Author, appearing for the first time in this edition, is at leaf k8v. of the first part. Arber: "with large and very beautiful figures".At the end the work is accompanied, with its own Titlepage, by the treatise De Ratione distillandi, also punctually illustrated with 6 woodcuts depictind distillation procedures.

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