(BOTANICAL) Mattioli Pietro Andrea Commentariorum in VI libr

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(BOTANICAL.) Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Commentariorum in VI. libros Pedacii Dioscoridis . . . de medica materia. Volume 2 (of 2). Large uncolored botanical woodcuts throughout; 6 illustrations of distilling apparatus at end. 772, [12] pages. Folio, 346x231 mm, contemporary limp vellum with arms of Anton Fugger dated 1586 on front cover, recased, endpapers renewed; portion excised from center of title and restored with text loss, contents generally clean. Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1583

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Later edition of Mattioli's 1554 commentary on the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides. Nissen BBI 1305.