MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea.Commentaires sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen de la matière Medecinale … mis en François sur la dernière édition Latine de l’Autheur, par Jean des Moulins. Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1579.
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Description
Folio, mm. 380x230; Contemporary binding contemporary full leather, spine and covers adorned in gold to the small tools; p. [136], 852, [32], one blank. Illustrated title page, title within the frame of allegorical figures and characters, author's portrait on verso, many images of plants and animals in the text, all imprinted in woodcut. Title-page, portrait, Initials and most of the illustrations in beautiful contemporary coloring. On the first inside cover, ancient handwritten note which reads "Du Chesne" and under the motto "Virescit vulnere virtus".
Copy in precious contemporary coloring.
It belonged to Joseph du Chesne, known as Josephus Quercetanus, chemist, alchemist and physician, a prominent supporter of the theories of Paracelsus. An handwritten inscription in contemporary writing contains his name followed by the motto Virescit vulnere virtus. The work of Mattioli, a fundamental review of Dioscorides Treaty, had wide fame: it is a compendium of botanical knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance, and is one of the most important books in the history of botanical medicine.
Here are described hundreds of plants, whose medicinal properties are shown, as well as the remedies that can be drawn for all diseases.
The translation is of Lyon Jean Moulin de doctor: this is the third French edition, corrected and enhanced by the translator.
Baudrier. IX, 369.
Really fresh specimen, with wide margins.
Copy in precious contemporary coloring.
It belonged to Joseph du Chesne, known as Josephus Quercetanus, chemist, alchemist and physician, a prominent supporter of the theories of Paracelsus. An handwritten inscription in contemporary writing contains his name followed by the motto Virescit vulnere virtus. The work of Mattioli, a fundamental review of Dioscorides Treaty, had wide fame: it is a compendium of botanical knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance, and is one of the most important books in the history of botanical medicine.
Here are described hundreds of plants, whose medicinal properties are shown, as well as the remedies that can be drawn for all diseases.
The translation is of Lyon Jean Moulin de doctor: this is the third French edition, corrected and enhanced by the translator.
Baudrier. IX, 369.
Really fresh specimen, with wide margins.
