Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 960
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA.) Il Dioscoride . . . con l'Aggiunta del Sesto Libro de i Rimedi di Tutti i Veleni da lui nuovamente tradotto. Printer's large woodcut device on general and divisional titles. [64], 755, [1]; 128, [8] pages. 2 volumes in one. 4to, old stiff wrappers, shaken, spotted, and soiled; mostly minor occasional marginal dampstaining, title and last page soiled, repaired clean tear in blank corner of one index leaf. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1548
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Second edition of Mattioli's 1544 extensively annotated Italian translation of the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides; issued without illustrations, which were first included in the 1555 edition. Choulant, Handbuch, page 81; DSB IV, 119-23, and IX, 179; Durling 1162; Sarton I, 258-60.