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DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. Les Six Livres de Pedacion Dioscoride d'Anazarbe de la Matiere Medicinale. French translation by Martin Mathée. Woodcut botanical and zoological text illustrations throughout. [16], 574, [2] pages, including final colophon leaf. 4to, later 17th-/early 18th-century mottled sheep gilt, moderate wear; marginal dampstaining at beginning, extensive early marginalia. Lyon: (Balthazar Arnoullet for) Thibault Payan, 1559
first edition in french 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. Pages 542-74 contain an addendum by the translator on simples not described by Dioscorides. Choulant, Handbuch, page 82; Hoffmann I, 604.
