204 - Corollari libri quinque non ante impressi, First Edition

Corollari libri quinque non ante impressi, First Edition A folio volume containing only the second part, published separately under the title *Corollari libri quinque non ante impressi* by Ermolao Barbaro, taken from *In hoc volumine haec continentur* by Dioscorides Pedanius, printed in Venice by the Barbari brothers in 1516. The *Corollarii* are an extensive commentary on the plants described by Dioscorides, preceded by a preface by Giovanni Battista Egnazio, published here for the first time. Barbaro began to treat already known plants—which had been described too succinctly over the course of fifteen or twenty centuries—in a new way, introducing an innovation of profound importance for botany, the initial merits of which were later attributed to scholars of a subsequent generation, such as Ruel, Valerius Cordus, Tragus, and Conrad Gesner. First edition