OPERA QUAE EXTANT OMNIA hoc est, commentarii in VI. libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia. by MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea. (Matthioli).: - 1674

Basel, Johann Konig, 1674.. Adjectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus. qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt: a Casparo Bauhino. infinitis locis aucti, synonymiis quoque plantarum et notis illustrati. Adjectis plantarum iconibus, supra priores editiones plus quam trecentis (quarum quamplurimae hic primum describuntur) ad vivum delineatis . Editio altera, Latin text, 1674. EX LIBRARY COPY, BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL INSTITUTE. Folio, approximately 365 x 220 mm, 14½ x 8½ inches, engraved title, full page engraved portrait of Casparo Bauhino, large number of woodcuts in the text of botanical subjects, animals, fish, snakes, reptiles, birds, insects, shells, shell-fish etc, woodcuts of distillation process, woodcut decorative initials, head- and tailpieces, pages: [121], [1], 1-1027, [1], [22], 3-236, [6], bound without last title page, AA1, bound in contemporary vellum with blind-embossed arabesque design to centre of each cover, rebacked with later gilt lettered black morocco label, gilt library stamp to foot of spine, endpapers replaced. Binding soiled, upper hinge mostly cracked, cover firmly attached, engraved title tightly bound, portrait lightly browned, pale age-browning and foxing throughout, slightly heavy in places, few small neat repairs to margins, repair to inner margin of half-title, pale ink library stamps to title page and half-title and intermittent pale library stamps to lower blank margins, pale damp-staining affecting top margins, a few corner tips missing, not affecting text, covers slightly bowed, shelf wear to edges, otherwise a good copy. See: Peter Krivatsy, A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, pages 769-770, No. 7569; A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library Volume 4, page 81. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.