1674 Mattioli HERBAL Botany Medicine Pharmacy Dioscorides Kreuterbuch Woodcuts

1674 Mattioli HERBAL Botany Medicine Pharmacy Dioscorides Kreuterbuch Woodcuts

Pietro Mattioli was an important 16^th-century Tuscan physician whose medical and botanical treatises were reliable and accurate for centuries after first published. Perhaps his most famous treatise, ‘Kreutterbuch’ is one of the most important illustrated herbal and horticultural books to ever be published. According to ‘Heirs of Hippocrates,’

“In this commentary on Dioscorides, Mattioli prepared what many authorities now regard as the encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology. He studied hundreds of plants, examined and described them fully, added many new species, and provided excellent illustrations which were far superior to those of any previous work in the field.” (HoH 141)

Mattioli included descriptions of other scientific studies such as fluid and water distillation and hippopotamus genitals used against snake bites – all of which are illustrated with hundreds of woodcut figures throughout this 1674 second edition.

Item number: #26888

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PISCATOR, Johannes [transl.]

Petri Andreae Matthioli … Commentarii in VI. Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia : Adiectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus, ex antiquissimis Codicibus desumptis, qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt

Basileae: sumptibus Ioannis König, 1674.

Details:

• Collation:
  • Matthioli Medici – [120], 1027 (i.e., 1029), [23]
    • Wanting p. 273-274, 277-278
  • Matthioli Senensis – 236, [6]
• References: Heirs of Hippocrates, 141; Schmid, Uber Alte Krauterbucher;
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Rev^d. Rob^t. Walsh L.L.D.
  • The Rev. Robert Walsh (1772–1852) was an Irish clergyman, historian, writer and physician. He became chaplain to the British Embassy in St. Petersburg and then in Constantinople in 1820. He was appointed chaplain to the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro in 1828. He spent 200 days in Brazil, travelling through the country to investigate the conditions of the slaves, and wrote Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 as part of an effort to abolish the slave trade, in addition to trying to set up courts that had the right to try slavers as pirates. Walsh also acquired a medical degree and practiced for some time as a physician. Motto: NOLI IRRITARE LEONEM
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~14.5in X 9in X 3.25in (37cm x 23cm x 8.5cm)

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