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DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. Libri octo. Greek text with Latin translation by Jean Ruel; edited by Jacques Goupyl. [20], 392 leaves. 8vo, 172x110 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, worn, author and date added later in ink on spine; contents toned with occasional light marginal dampstaining, title rehinged with inscription imperfectly washed out and blank upper outer corner restored, scattered early underscoring and marginalia. Paris: (Benoît Prévost for) widow of Arnold Birckmann, 1549
first goupyl edition of the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides, which remained authoritative into the early modern era, and the pseudo-Dioscoridean De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, on poisons and poisonous animals. Choulant, Handbuch, pages 78-79; Durling 1136; Hoffmann I, 600; Sarton I, 258-60.
