76/1693 Mattioli, P.A. I Discorsi ne i sei libri della materia medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo. Venice, V. Valgrisi, 1557, (86),741p., num. woodcut text ills., early 20th cent. hleather, folio.

- Partly yellowed/ (water)stained and foxed (first and final lvs. incl. title-p. worse); title-p. restored in margin.

= Cf. Nissen, BBI 1304; Pritzel 5987 (both listing the ed. Venice, Valgrisi, 1555); Arber p.92ff: "One of the chief commentators and herbalists of the later renaissance (...)". Attractively illustrated work, containing mostly botanical illustrations, as well as illustrations of fish, mammals, shells, insects etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.