Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii Secundo Aucti, in Libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medici Materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum, & animalium imaginibus quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore, 2 parts in one, Venice: Officina Erasmiana, Vincentii Valgrisii, 1558, titles and final leaf verso with publisher's large woodcut device, 703 woodcut illustrations by Giorgio Liberali and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, a few eighteenth-century annotations in English, first title trimmed and laid down, following leaf with marginal repair, some lower corners to index leaves at front with marginal losses from biopredation, woodcut (Pickerel frog?) on 2R1 verso obscured with ink, marginal toning and stains, mainly to first title and following few leaves (main body of text generally in clean condition), one or two small burnholes, later crimson half morocco, spine and edges a little rubbed, a few stains to covers, folio (30 x 19.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Adams D667; Durling 3009; Nissen BBI 1305; Wellcome 4139. A number of editions of Mattioli's commentary on the work of Greek physician Dioscorides were printed, the present 1558 edition had an additional 133 new woodcuts and the medium-size woodcuts by the same artists served as a model for a larger series, and much influenced later herbals.
Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii Secundo Aucti, in Libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medici Materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum, & animalium imaginibus quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore, 2 parts in one, Venice: Officina Erasmiana, Vincentii Valgrisii, 1558, titles and final leaf verso with publisher's large woodcut device, 703 woodcut illustrations by Giorgio Liberali and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, a few eighteenth-century annotations in English, first title trimmed and laid down, following leaf with marginal repair, some lower corners to index leaves at front with marginal losses from biopredation, woodcut (Pickerel frog?) on 2R1 verso obscured with ink, marginal toning and stains, mainly to first title and following few leaves (main body of text generally in clean condition), one or two small burnholes, later crimson half morocco, spine and edges a little rubbed, a few stains to covers, folio (30 x 19.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Adams D667; Durling 3009; Nissen BBI 1305; Wellcome 4139. A number of editions of Mattioli's commentary on the work of Greek physician Dioscorides were printed, the present 1558 edition had an additional 133 new woodcuts and the medium-size woodcuts by the same artists served as a model for a larger series, and much influenced later herbals.
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