1579 MATTHIOLE COMMENTARIES ILLUSTRATED PLANTS ANIMALS antique 16th cent. FOLIO
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1579 MATTHIOLE COMMENTARIES ILLUSTRATED PLANTS ANIMALS antique 16th cent. FOLIO

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img{max-width:100%} COMMENTAIRES DE M. PIERRE ANDRE MATTHIOLE MEDECIN SENOIS, SUR LES SIX LIVRES DE PED. DIOSCOR. ANAZARBEEN DE LA MATIERE MEDECINALE [...]. 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 & augmentes. [Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1579] - lower part of the title page with edition information is missing.With 1 woodcut portrait, woodcut title vignette and numerous text woodcuts of plants, herbs, mammals, fish etc, 6 illustrations of distillery apparatus.Besides medical plants the book also contains short zoological chapters and a chapter on distillation. Original calf (restored). Renewed endpapers and ties.Massive folio: 10 by 15 1/4"832 pp plus extensive preface and tables of contentTitle-page with backed loss of lower part, one of the text illustrations cut out, some minor marginal repairs and occasional spots.Second edition (1st 1561) of the French translation by Jean Des Moulin

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