Mattioli,P.A. I discorsi ne i sei libri de Pedacio... Lot 258

Mattioli,P.A. I discorsi ne i sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride... della materia medicinale. With woodcut printer's mark on the title and very numerous, partly ankolor. Text woodcuts. 60 vols, 802 pages (without the nn. leaf with printer's mark at the end). Folio. Half leather binding around 1800 with gilt spine. Venice, Valgrisi, 1559; Nissen, BBI, 1304; Wellcome I, 4134; Durling 3022 - Third Italian edition of Mattioli's main work, and one of the most famous herbals of the 16th century. - Heavier wear: title and leaf 2 mounted, first 8 leaves and last leaf waterstained and more heavily worm-eaten, last leaf partly altered and with some loss of text; some spotting in right margin, small marginal defects reinforced, worming, some spotting and browning, some marginal tears. Endpapers renewed.