MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA) De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol., Venice, Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604

MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA)

De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol.,
third Italian edition, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within an elaborate border on k8v, over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, fish and insects, many by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, varying degrees of browning and staining, especially to volume 1, occasional small ink/oxidisation spots throughout, volume 1 with some repairs to worming (affecting text and illustration in one section), title and 2 other leaves repaired (former with some letters supplied in manuscript), volume 2 with final a1 and a6 repaired in margins, early vellum, some stains, spine ends and edges restored [Nissen BBI 1304; Pritzel 5988; Wellcome I, 4137], folio (350 x 240mm.), Venice, Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604

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