Les commentaires sur les six livres de la matiere medecinale de Pedacius Dioscoride [...]. Derniere edition, reveuë, corrigée & mise dans un meilleur langage: avec deux tables Latine & Françoise.

Folio: [8]-xcv-[15]-636-[34] pp. (spotting & browning throughout, some local staining, sm. marg. tear in f. Zz4).

18th-c. marbled sheep (some sm. tears, corners bumped), gilt spine with 6 raised bands (head def.), marbl. endpapers & edges.

Last edition (1st 1561) of the French trsl. by Antoine du Pinet from the Latin "Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo Libri cinque Della historia" (1544) by the Italian doctor and naturalist P.A. Mattioli (Siena 1501-1577). Illustrated with engr. mark on title by N. Auroux, large woodcut author's portrait and 1478 woodcuts in-text, showing mainly plants and animals. Besides medical plants the book also contains short zoological chapters and a chapter on distillation. Title in red and black.
Ref. Krivatsy 7574. - Nissen (BBI) 1312. - Pritzel 5991. - BnF. - Not in Wellcome.
Prov. Van der Wiele (mod. bookpl.). - A. de Kluijs (ms. entry, stamps and mod. arm. bookpl.).