1566 MEDICAL ILLUSTRATED 650 woodcuts PLANTS ANIMALS

Les commentaires de M. Pierre Andre Matthioli, medecin senoys, sur les six livres des simples de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen.
Traduit de latin en franc?ois. Avec une table medicinale extraite d'iceux
By MATTIOLI, Pierandrea
Lyon, 1566
Folio: 8 1/2 by 13"
[64]-538-[2 bl.]-[22] pp.
Some wear of leather binding, some spotting.
Rare second edition (1st 1561) of the French trsl. by Antoine du Pinet from the Latin "Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo Libri cinque Della historia" (1544) by the Italian doctor and naturalist P.A.G. Mattioli (1501-1577).
Illustrated with more than 650 woodcuts in-text, reduced in size after the Venice edition of 1565, showing mainly plants and animals.
Besides medical plants the book also contains short zoological chapters and a chapter on distillation.
Mattioli was best known for his works on botany and medicine.
His aim was to help doctors and apothecaries to enable them to identify the medicinal plants mentioned by Dioscorides. The many editions that followed in vernacular languages, first in French, rendered the work accessible to scholars throughout Europe.
- Ref. Nissen (BBI) 1312. - Baudrier IV:77. - Pritzel 5991. - Durling 3016. - Pettegree (FB) 37146. - Not in Adams, Wellcome.

Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501 – c.?1577) was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena.
Pietro Andrea Mattioli was a renowned botanist and physician, and this is attested to by his published works. As Mattioli held a post in the Imperial Court as physician to Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and the Emperor Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, this granted him immense influence. But some of his practice included the frequent testing of the effects of poisonous plants on prisoners in order to popularize his works-no doubt a common practice at the time.
And Mattioli did not tolerate either rivals or corrections. The naturalists and physicians who dared to disagree or correct him did so at their peril. The list of some of the most important men of the day that were admonished, rebuked, or pursued by the Inquisition contains Wieland, Anguillara, Gesner, Lusitanus and others. This caused the longterm domination of Mattioli's version of De Materia Medica throughout the continent, especially in northern Europe.

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