MATTIOLI, Pierandrea. Commentaires de M. Pierre André Matthi - Lot 154

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MATTIOLI, Pierandrea. Commentaires de M. Pierre André Matthi - Lot 154
MATTIOLI, Pierandrea. Commentaires de M. Pierre André Matthiole médecin sennois, sur les six livres de Ped. Dioscoride Anazarbeen de la matière médicinale... A Lyon, par Guill[aume] [Rouill[epar], 1579. 2 volumes in-folio, (68) ff., 386 pp., fig. and pp. 387-852 pp., (14) ff. Later marbled fawn basane, smooth spine, title, iron tomaisons and gilt fillets, cold roulette framing the boards, speckled edges (bindings rubbed, headpieces of vol.2 worn, jaws of vol. 2 slightly split, title margin reinforced, wetness). Early French edition of the great 16th-century treatise on medicinal botany by Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501-1577), translated from the Italian original first published in 1544. The French original appeared in 1572. Illustrated with numerous woodcut botanical figures in black, some of which were enhanced with color at the time. An immense repertory of botanical and medical knowledge in the mid-sixteenth century, this work, much used by physicians and botanists throughout the centuries, is only incomplete and/or in poor condition. In addition to plants, this work contains an interesting chapter on distillation. Pritzel, 5991. Nissen, 1313.
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