Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Kreutterbuch ... jetzt... Lot 23

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Kreutterbuch ... jetzt wiederum mit vielen und newen Figuren, auch nutzlichen Artzeneyen. Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1611. In 2nd (345 x 215 mm); [10], 460, [27] maps. Illustrated frontispiece, nearly 1050 woodcut figures in text, typographical mark to colophon, all in beautiful coeval coloring (frontispiece restored and partly lined, other minor restorations mainly to lower margin, restoration to index cards with loss of text, inner margin of index restored, browned). Coeval sow's leather binding on wooden boards with blindstamped plates and casters to the plates, traces of two clasps, red boards. Specimen with coeval coloring. Also contains chapter on distillation at end of volume.Mattioli was the first to describe the tomato, imported in 1544 from America.