MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577). De I Discorsi di... Matthioli... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale. Venice: Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604.
MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577). De I Discorsi di... Matthioli... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale. Venice: Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604.
Unsophisticated copy of the third Italian language edition of the 'grand Mattioli', with the full series of the magnificent large woodcuts. The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech), and the 1563 New Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but this edition includes the equally fine cuts from the 1565 edition of the enlarged work which include zoological subjects and the genre scenes. 'Matthioli's expansive commentary on Dioscorides' classic text ... reflects the growing accumulation of botanical knowledge, which is curiously mirrored also in its illustrations. They are generally presented in wood-cuts of considerable size and unprecedented complexity... The designs, probably made by G. Liberale of Udine, were translated by Meyerpeck's accomplished block cutting into morphologically detailed and carefully shaded images' (Bridson & Wendel, Printmaking in the Service of Botany, Hunt Institute, 1986, p.24). Collation complete, as per IT\ICCU\RAVE\010036, excepting the final gathering in vol. II which is here 6M8 rather than a6; BL Italian 559; BM(NH) III, 1268; Nissen BBI 1304; Wellcome I, 4137; see Blunt & Raphael The Illustrated Herbal, 1979. pp.132-133.
Folio (360 x 250mm). Title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within an elaborate border on k8 verso [recto blank], over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, fish and insects, many by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck (tiny marginal hole in title and extending through the following 4 leaves, tiny marginal tear to portrait, variable light browning throughout, some staining,mostly confined to margins at end of vol. I and to gutter of some leaves at beginning of vol. II, 3L3v poorly printed affecting a few lines of text, a few tiny marginal tears with the one on 4L2 extending into text, paper flaw to 4S3 affecting a shoulder note on verso, small marginal chip to 4F3). Late 17th-/early 18th-century vellum (rubbed and soiled, old repair to foot of spine of vol. I). Provenance: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719; priest and educational reformer from Reims, deleted inscriptions) – Ferrant (18th-century inscription on title 'Dr Chir[urgien] Reims') – Louis Jérôme Raussin (1721-1798; doctor and bibliophile, engraved armorial bookplates and inscriptions).
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MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577). De I Discorsi di... Matthioli... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale. Venice: Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604.
Unsophisticated copy of the third Italian language edition of the 'grand Mattioli', with the full series of the magnificent large woodcuts. The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech), and the 1563 New Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but this edition includes the equally fine cuts from the 1565 edition of the enlarged work which include zoological subjects and the genre scenes. 'Matthioli's expansive commentary on Dioscorides' classic text ... reflects the growing accumulation of botanical knowledge, which is curiously mirrored also in its illustrations. They are generally presented in wood-cuts of considerable size and unprecedented complexity... The designs, probably made by G. Liberale of Udine, were translated by Meyerpeck's accomplished block cutting into morphologically detailed and carefully shaded images' (Bridson & Wendel, Printmaking in the Service of Botany, Hunt Institute, 1986, p.24). Collation complete, as per IT\ICCU\RAVE\010036, excepting the final gathering in vol. II which is here 6M8 rather than a6; BL Italian 559; BM(NH) III, 1268; Nissen BBI 1304; Wellcome I, 4137; see Blunt & Raphael The Illustrated Herbal, 1979. pp.132-133.
Folio (360 x 250mm). Title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within an elaborate border on k8 verso [recto blank], over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, fish and insects, many by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck (tiny marginal hole in title and extending through the following 4 leaves, tiny marginal tear to portrait, variable light browning throughout, some staining,mostly confined to margins at end of vol. I and to gutter of some leaves at beginning of vol. II, 3L3v poorly printed affecting a few lines of text, a few tiny marginal tears with the one on 4L2 extending into text, paper flaw to 4S3 affecting a shoulder note on verso, small marginal chip to 4F3). Late 17th-/early 18th-century vellum (rubbed and soiled, old repair to foot of spine of vol. I). Provenance: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719; priest and educational reformer from Reims, deleted inscriptions) – Ferrant (18th-century inscription on title 'Dr Chir[urgien] Reims') – Louis Jérôme Raussin (1721-1798; doctor and bibliophile, engraved armorial bookplates and inscriptions).
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