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Venice: Gregoriis Brothers for Aloisius and Franciscus Barbari, and Johannes Bartholomeus Astensis, 1516. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1 Feb. 1516. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (305 x 215 mm). [36], CXXXIII (i.e. CXXXIV); 106 leaves. Signatures: AA6 [cross]8 [cross]a-[cross]b8 [cross]c6 A-X6 Y8; A-C8 D6 E-M8 N-O6. 16th century limb vellum, spine titled in manuscript (soiling, spotting and light creasing of covers, closing bands gone). Text very fresh and clean with very minor occasional spotting or browning, final gatherings with faint dampstain at fore margin, manuscript note on second title. An exceptionally crisp and wide-margined copy. ---- NLM/Durling 1140; Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History pp. 553-568; Pritzel 2301; Wellcome I 1794. Bird 669; Wellcome I, 1794. FIRST EDITION by Johannes Baptista Egnatius and the definitive one of Ermolao Barbaro's (1454-1493) Latin translation. De medicinali materia, first printed in Latin in 1479… Leer más

[36], “CXXXIII” [= CXXXIV], 106 ll.The first authoritative work of antiquity on the “materia medica”, the branch of science treating remedial substances, based on the author’s first-hand research throughout the Middle East. This is the rare first edition to include the commentary by G. B. Egnatio: the third Latin (altogether the fourth) edition of Dioscorides, the first to contain the translation of Ermolao Barbaro. The appendix contains the first edition ever of "Corollarii", Barbaro’s conclusions, sometimes considered a separate work by bibliographers."Dioscorides’ work is the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity. He described over 600 plants and plant principles" (Garrison/M.). "Very little is known about its author ..., except that he was a Cilician Greek who lived in the time of Claudius and Nero, and that he travelled widely in the Middle East, probably as a physician in the Roman army ... It is no exaggeration to say that from its publication until well into the 17th… Leer más