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195
Feb. 85
Cr Eichenberger
Bien wil am See
SF = 115 = $43
Mattioli, (Pictro) Pier Andres (1500-1577)
Kreutterbuch, to which is appended Von Distillier and
Brennofen. Ed. by Joachin Camerarius. f0
Frankfurt: J. Feyerabend in Verlegung Peter. Fischers
Hurt #160 and HeinrichDacken Erben, 1590. 2 0
Leaves: [x], 460, [37], [I] Von Wulkraut Konigskertze p. 402 Cap. XCVIII 4th book
Von distiller and Brennoefen begins on [Gggg6] recto
[inserted] The work on distillation at
the end is a transl. of the
author's De ratione deistillandi
aquas... [end isnerted]
-leaf 14 7/8 x 9 13/16. (42cm) Title page + woodcuts colored.
(Fol.) (:)6 *4 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6, Aaaa-Gggg6, Hhhh4,
Iiii6, Kkkk-Rrrr4. Copy 1) Univ of Wisc. 2) Kansas #168
Grasse IV D. 464 Hunt 160 (with 4 colored plant woodcuts)
Pritzel, 5990 (455 foll.), BM (NH), Nissen 1311. Plesch Cat #514
G.A. - Thesaurus Litterature Botanicae - Milan 1950. Frankfurt.
The 2nd edition of German, ed. by Camerarius (first 1586.)
The illust. are partly the Fessuer figures which Camerarius had acquired + partly copies after the Italian series.
Mattioli was an excellent botanist + a renowned physician.
He wrote a number of other botanical + medical books but his
commentaries on Dioscoides are considered his most
important works. This book lead to his being called to
the Imperial court as physician to Archduke Ferdinand +
then Max. II.
In 1544, Valrisi of Venice published, in Italian + without
illustrations, the 1st ed. of his famous commentaries on Dissciodes,
"Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis.'" The 1st
illust ed. (1554), with 562 small woodcuts was reprinted many
times, in both Latin + Italian.

Kreutterbuch - Ed. J. Camerarius. I. Rosen: Frankfurt 1600 fol.
R. Durling #3019 - German tr. Kreuterbuch Frankfurt 1586.
[8], 460, [37] 1). illus. 39 cm.
A German transl. [by Georg Handsch] of the botanical
portion of Mattioli's Commentaries, without the text of Dioscorides,
but having the 'Nancupatoria' in Latin prefixed.
-Translated by Georg Handsch.

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