[Les six livres de Pedacion Dioscoride d'Anazarbe de la matiere medicinale : translatez de latin en françois : a chacun chapitre sont aioustees certaines annotations fort doctes, & recueillies des plus excellens medecins, anciens, & modernes
This is a 1553 Lyon edition of Dioscorides' six-book materia medica, translated from Latin into French by Martin Mathée and printed by Balthazar Arnoullet for physicians and students of medicinal plants. The woodcut plant portraits show whole herbs with roots, stems, leaves and flowers drawn in fine, even black line, which a designer could borrow for botanical diagrams, herbal labels or vintage plant borders.
