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MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. Compendium de plantis omnibus . . . de quibus scripsit suis in commentariis in Dioscoridem editis. Profusion of botanical text woodcuts. [16], 921, [15] pages. 4to, later crude morocco-backed patterned boards, spine wormed; margins trimmed, most headlines cropped but text and illustrations otherwise unaffected, marginal soiling and dampstaining through much of volume, early inscriptions on title, printer's woodcut device hand-tinted, early marginalia on page 576, last page heavily soiled, with old scrawls showing through on recto, portion of rear free endpaper excised. Mounted on endleaf opposite title is a 19th-century lithographed portrait captioned "Antonio Lassubez, Physicien, Séances Électro-Magiques au Théâtre." Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1571
first edition of a digest of Mattioli''s 1554 commentary on the materia medica of Dioscorides. Included as an appendix is the first edition in Latin of Francesco Calzolari''s 1566 Viaggio in Monte Baldo, describing plant life in the vicinity of Mt. Baldo on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, "among the earliest of the innumerable books which may be classed as local floras" (Arber, page 100). Adams M908; Durling 3028; Nissen BBI 1306.
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