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HERBALS]. MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. I Discorsi...nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia Medicinale. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1581. Folio, 303 x 202 mm., old blindstamped dark brown morocco, spine ends and corner repaired; some marginal repairs on preliminaries and several leaves at end (some loss), browning and staining. Seventh illustrated Italian vernacular edition. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end, numerous woodcuts in text. NLM/Durling 3026. Early inscription in Italian on title; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DURANTE, CASTORE. Herbario Novo... Venice: Sessa, 1617. Folio, 290 x 197 mm., contemporary vellum; title lightly browned with a few internal tears repaired, some minor marginal stains. Title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device on title, 2 woodcut portraits on title verso (Castore and Jacopo Antonio Cortuso), and numerous woodcuts in text; 10 leaves of woodcuts (6 to each page) at end. Pritzel 2552. Joannes(?) Honorati, early signature on title; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- AMATUS LUSITANUS. In Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia libros quinque... Venice: Jordani Zilleti, 1557. 4to, 205 x 146 mm., contemporary vellum; upper hinge cracked, some minor marginal spotting. Third edition (first 1553). Woodcut printer's device on title. Wellcome 261. Joannes Stephani Scoferii, early inscription on title and his(?) notes on colophon page; A.L.S., bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- ORTA, GARZIA DA and NICOLÒ MONARDES. Dell'Histoira de I Semplici Aromati... Venice: Herede de Girolamo Scotto, 1605. 2 parts in one, 8vo, 164 x 111 mm., contemporary vellum; some minor marginal spotting and staining. Later Italian edition. Woodcut printer's device on title and numerous woodcuts in text. Haller I, p. 332. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. Dioscoride fatto di Greco Italiano. Al cui fine sono apposte le sue tavole ordinate, con certe avertenze, e trattati necessarii, per la materia medesima. [Venice]: Per Curtio Troiano de Nauò, 1542. 8vo, 155 x 105 mm., contemporary vellum, spine worn with chords exposed, joints cracked. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, and the first vernacular translation of Dioscorides. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end. NLM/Durling 1159; Wellcome 1798. Early inscription on rear endpaper; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- DURANTE, CASTORE. Il Tesoro della Sanita... Venice: Andrea Muschio, 1589. 8vo, 156 x 100 mm., contemporary limp vellum; some mostly marginal staining. One of the many Italian translations of Durante's De Bonitate et Vitio Alimentorum Centuria, first published in 1586. Woodcut printer's device on title. "Il Qurcino da Loo," early inscription on title; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (6)