212 - Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Discourses on the Six Books of Pedacius Dioscorides of Anazarbus on Medicinal Substances: with illustrations of plants and animals drawn from nature. Venice, Pezzana, 1744., The last Italian edition of the well-known herbarium

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Discourses on the Six Books of Pedacius Dioscorides of Anazarbus on Medicinal Substances: with illustrations of plants and animals drawn from nature. Venice, Pezzana, 1744., The last Italian edition of the well-known herbarium Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedacius Dioscorides Anazarbus on Medicinal Substances: with illustrations of plants and animals drawn from nature. Venice, Pezzana, 1744. Folio (335 x 225 mm); [152], 851 pages. Hundreds of woodcut illustrations in the text (ink stains with loss of a few letters on Hh8, reinforcement along the outer margin on some leaves, minor defects.) 19th-century half-parchment binding, with an orange label bearing the title in gold on the spine. A famous herbarium in which the renowned Sienese physician and naturalist, commenting on the work of Dioscorides, compiles and organizes all the knowledge of medical botany of the time. This is the last Italian edition featuring the same illustrations as the 16th-century editions. The plates depict plants, mammals, birds, fish, and mollusks, as well as several kilns with stills for distillation. The last Italian edition of the famous herbal