I Discorsi Di M. Pietro Andrea Matthioli Sanese, Medico Cesareo, Et Del Serenissimo Prencipe Ferdinando Arciduca D’Austria,..

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I Discorsi Di M. Pietro Andrea Matthioli Sanese, Medico Cesareo, Et Del Serenissimo Prencipe Ferdinando Arciduca D’Austria,..

Herbal book with title page, index, illustrated on 842 pages with several hundred woodcut illustrations of herbs in the text. A well-preserved copy of the 164 Ginammi edition of Mattioli's famous herbal book. The woodcut illustrations are in very good impressions throughout and mostly with 2 or 3 woodcut illustrations on each page. At the end there is a small appendix on the distillation of water with 5 full-page illustrations of distilling apparatus. There is also a small section at the beginning with descriptions and illustrations of animals (fish and quadrupeds). Overall in very good condition. Occasionally lightly browned, very few pages at the beginning with crease marks.

c. 1645

Artist

Mattioli