Commentaire de M. Pierre André Matthiole médecin senois, sur les six livres de Ped. Dioscor. Anazarbeen de la matiere médécinale [...]. Mis en françois sur la dernière édition Latine de l'autheur, par M. Iean des Moulins docteur en médecine. Et de nouveau reveuz par iceluy & augmentés, & enrichis [...].

Folio: [136]-852-[28] pp. (ms. annotations on flylvs, woodcut title leaf loose, outer margin restored).

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with 6 raised bands.

Later edition (1st 1561) of the French trsl. by Jean Des Moulins from the Latin "Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo Libri cinque Della historia" (1544) by the Italian doctor and naturalist P.A.G. Mattioli (1501-1577). Illustrated with more than 650 woodcuts in-text, reduced in size after the Venice edition of 1565, showing mainly plants and animals. Besides medical plants the book also contains short zoological chapters and a chapter on distillation. Mattioli was best known for his works on botany and medicine. His aim was to help physicians and apothecaries to enable them to identify the medicinal plants mentioned by Dioscorides. The many editions that followed in vernacular languages, first in French, rendered the work accessible to scholars throughout Europe.
Ref. Durling 3018. - Pettegree (FB) 37153. - Machiels D:247. - Cp. Nissen (BBI) 1312, Baudrier IV:77, Pritzel 5991. - Not in Adams, Wellcome.
Prov. François Mortier, doctor (bookpl.).