Frankfurt am Main, Feyerabend, Fischer & Dack, 1590. Folio (1) leaf, colored title, (8) leaves, 458 of 460 leaves, (36) leaves of Register. Contemporary full calf binding.
Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), a physician born in Siena and initially active in Italy, later at the Habsburg court in Prague, made a name for himself through the Italian and Latin translation and commentary of the most influential ancient pharmacology "Hýle iatrike" (lat. "Materia medica") of the military doctor Pedanios Dioskurides from Anazarbos in Asia Minor (1st century AD), whose oldest manuscript from 512 AD is also the first illustrated herbal book to have survived (now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna). The edition of Mattioli's Dioscurides Commentary, which was translated into German by the Nuremberg city physician Joachim Camerarius the Younger and newly edited, and dedicated to the Saxon elector Christian I, is illustrated with more than 1,000 woodcuts, which were made, among other things, after drawings by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) and which, in addition to the entire plant, often also show its leaves, seeds or fruits in enlarged form. - Nice copy of this early herbal book in contemporary coloring. - Previous owners stamp on the title sheet. Some waterstains on the beginning of the books. 4 leaves with owners stamp. Leaves 115, 116, 117 with spots (probably coffee). Leaves 382 and 383 are missing (added as a photo copy).
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O.J. (16. Jh.). Holzschnitt (Brustbild in ovaler Umrahmung umgeben von allegorischen Figuren und Blattranken). Bildgrösse: 31 x 22,5 cm (picture size). Blattgrösse: 35 x 23 cm (leaf size).
Knapp bis zum Bildrand beschnitten. - Résumé: Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577): Italian physician and botanist. Woodcut (half length portrait in oval with allegoric figures). 16th century. - Margins cropped close.
"SUMPTIBUS JOANISS KONIG. 1674. In-Folio. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Mouillures. Environ 100 pages + 1027 pages + 236 pages ""De ratione distillandia aquas ex omnibus plantis : et quomodo genuini odores in ipfisaquis conservarii pofsint"" - OUVRAGE EN LATIN - nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte - traces de mouillures en début d'ouvrage sans conséquence sur la lecture - quelques rousseurs sans conséquence sur la lecture dû à l'année de l'ouvrage - dos à 5 nerfs - titre et caissons dorés sur le dos - coiffe en tête légèrement abîmée - mors légèrement abîmés - griffures et quelques épidermures sur les plats - OUVRAGE EN LATIN - 13 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle"
NOTA : Pietro Andrea Matthioli (ou Mattioli, Matthiole, Matthiolus) est un médecin et un botaniste italien, né le 23 mars 1501 à Sienne et mort vers 1578 à Trente de la peste - PETRI ANDREAE MATTHIOLI MEDICI CAESAREI ET FERDINANDI ARCHIDUCIS AUSTRAIE OPERA QUAE EXTANT OMNIA : HOC EST COMMENTARII IN VI.LIBROS PEDACII DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA : ADJECTIS IN MARGINE VARIIS GRAECI TEXTUS LECTIONIBUS EX ANTIQUISSIMIS CODICIBUS DESUMPTIS QUI DIOSCORIDIS DEPRAVATAM LECTIONEM RESTITUUNT : A CASPARO BAUHINO BASILIENSI MEDICINAE PROFESSORE CLARISS POST DIVERSARUM EDITIONUM COLLATIONEM INFINITIS LOCU AUCTI : SYNONYMIIS QUOQ PLANTARUM ET NOTIS ILLUSTRATI ADJECTIS PLANTARUM ICONIBUS SUPRA PRIORES EDITIONES PLUS QUAM TRECENTIS AD VIVIUM DELINEATIS DE RATIONE DISTILLANDI AQUAS EX OMNIBUS APOLOGIA IN AMATUM LUSITANUM CUM CENSURA IN EJUSDEM ENARRATIONES EPISTOLARUM MEDICINALIUM LIBRI QUINQUE DIALOGUS DE MORBO GALLICO - EDITIO ALTERA. Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
Franckfort am Mayn, (Colophon: Johan Feyrabendt), 1590. Folio. (40,5x26 cm.). Contemporary full pigskin over wood, 5 raised bands, panels stamped in blind on covers. 2 clasps. Binding professionally restored at edges and corners, but still with traces of use, some scratches and overall wear. End-papers renewed with old paper. Title-page printed in red and black inside a broad woodcut compartment depicting Dioscorides and the author and with printed mottos around ovals. Both the title-page and the large printer's device at the end are by Jost Amman. (10),460,(2),(35) pp. With more than 800 woodcuts of plants in the text and several illustrations of destilling apparatus in the section ""Von Distillier un Brennoefen"" (fol.456 ff.). A few leaves neatly repaired at corners and at outer margins. At foot of title an ink-erasement repaired. A few leaves with faint dampstainings to upper and right margins. A few scattered brownspots. Some margins slightly brownspotted. Leaves of index at end with some small wormholes. In general a well preserved copy, professionally restored where needed.
The scarce second German edition of the famous work ""Commentarii a Dioscoride"", with which Matthioli's name is chiefly linked. He was an excellent botanist and a renowned physician.""Fundamental to the work's success is its conception and execution as a practical scientific treatise. It was intended for daily use by physicians, herbalists, and others, who could find descriptions and notes on medical plants and herbs, Greek and Latin names and synonyms, and the equivalents in other languages. The work made it possible to identify and compare plants and herbs with those mentioned by Dioscorides and also with those found in nature....Matthioli supported his work with new information, partly derived from his direct observations of plants and herbs and partly obtained from other authors....Matthioli's commentary on Dioscoride's text was aimed largely at the practical purpose of medicinal phytognosis and acquired intrinsic value both through the wealth of its descriptive details of each plant and through its accurate drawings. Mattioli may therefore be considered a member of the Vesalian school of morphological observation."" (DSB IX, p.179-80).Pritzel No 5990. - Nissen ZBI: 1311 (the larger illustrations are from Conrad Gessner, bought by Camerarius to his editions). - Hunt: 160.
Jetzt widerumb mit viel schönen neuwen Figuren, auch nützlichen Artzeneyen, vnd Franckfort am Mayn, Johan Feyrabendt, in verlegung Peter Fischers, und Heinrich Dacken Erben, M.D.LXXXX. 2°. (1) leeres Bl., Kupfertitel, (8) Blatt, 458 von 460 Bl, (36) Bl. (Register. Lederband.
Ordentliches Exemplar in schönem Altkolorit. - Starkere Gebrauchsspuren. Titel- und 4 andere -blatt mit Besitzerstempel. 11 Seiten wasserfleckigm Anstreichungen. Es fehlen die Blatt 382 und 383.
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1764. Kupferstich von F. Allegrini nach Lorenzo Feliciati. Plattengrösse: 29,5 x 19,5 cm. Blattgrösse: 42 x 32,5 cm.