Beschreibung:

DIOSCORIDES and COMMENTARIES]. DIOSCORIDES, PEDANIUS. Il Dioscoride dell'eccellente dottor medico m.P. Andrea Matthioli da Siena; co i suoi discorsi, da esso la seconda volta illustrati, & diligentemente ampliati. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1548. 4to, 223 x 165 mm., contemporary vellum, rebacked; title stained with some marginal fraying, misbound with book 6 bound after general title and 31 preliminary leaves bound at end (possibly lacking one leaf), some mostly marginal worming (affecting some running headlines and letters of text) and staining. Woodcut printer's device on title and numerous woodcut initials in text. STC/ Italian p. 218; NLM/Durling 1162. J.B. Holzinger, bookplate; Ernst Conrad Stahl, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA. I Discorsi ne i sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della Materia Medicinale. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1560. Folio, 293 x 199 mm., contemporary vellum, covers gilt-ruled with central gilt ornament, vellum very wrinkled and stained; lacking 6 leaves of text (sig. Z), some minor marginal staining. Woodcut printer's device on title, approximately 700 woodcust in text. NLM/Durling 3023. "Bibliotheca Nicolspurgensis..." inscription on title; J.B. Holzinger, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- MATTIOLI. Commentarii denuo aucti in libros sex Pedacii Dioscorides Anazarbei de medica materia... Lyon: Gabriel Cotier, 1563. 4to, 248 x 165 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; some light marginal browning. With Mattioli's Apologia bound at end with a separate title (dated 1562). Woodcut printer's device on titles and at end, numerous woodcuts in text. Baudrier IV, p. 74. Docteur Flandrin, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (3)