Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Archiducis Austriae & c., Medici, Commentarii secundo aucti : in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimis plantarum, & animalium imaginibus quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore : his accessit eiusdem apologia adversus Amathum Lusitanum cum censura in eiusdem enarrationes
A 1558 Latin botanical commentary by Pietro Andrea Mattioli on Dioscorides' materia medica, printed in Venice by the Erasmiana press for physicians and students of medicinal plants. Its woodcuts show whole plants drawn with roots, stems, leaves and flowers, set against plain paper with little shading, so they suit a designer wanting clear botanical line drawings.
