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Petri Andreae Matthioli,... Opera quae extant omnia, hoc est Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia, adjectis in margine variis graeci textus lectionibus... qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt, nunc a Casparo Bacchino,... post diversarum editionum collationem infinitis locis aucti, synonymiis quoque plantarum et notis illustrati ; adjectis plantarum iconibus... de ratione distillandi aquas ex omnibus plantis... Item, apologia in Amatum Lusitanum, cum censura in ejusdem enarrationes [necnon praefatione Francisci Parthini Roboretani]. Epistolarum medicinalium libri quinque ; Dialogus de morbo gallico...

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea / Matthiole, Pierre André · 1598 · Francofurti : ex officina typographica N. Bassaei · 55 pictures

Matthioli's 1598 Frankfurt edition of his commentary on Dioscorides, a Latin herbal printed for physicians and botanists, with Caspar Bauhin's additions and plant woodcuts. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts of single plants shown whole, with roots, stems, leaves and flowers drawn in fine hatched line against plain paper, useful to a designer for botanical framing and specimen-style layouts.

Dioscoride

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