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MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia [with Apologia adversus Amathum Lusitanum]. Over 600 woodcut text illustrations, mostly of botanical subjects. [98] (of [100]), 776; 46, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks index leaf b1. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 303x206 mm, modern leather, front cover scratched; stains, crude restoration in blank margins, and old partly scored inscriptions on title, occasionally heavy marginal soiling and stains, scattered underscoring, clean tear in 2G6, crude marginal restoration on last 2 leaves. Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1559
Third edition in Latin. Mattioli's commentary on the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides was first published in Italian in 1544 and in Latin translation in 1554. Appended to this edition is his attack on Amatus Lusitanus (i. e., João Rodrigues), the Marrano physician and commentator on Dioscorides. Nissen BBI 1305.
