MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1501-1578) - I discorsi nei sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia medicinale. Venice: nella bottega d'Erasmo, appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1555.   First edition in folio of the "best known botanical-pharmaceutical text of the sixteenth century" (Treccani).   Oblong folio (295 x 195mm). Printer's device on title, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut initials (lacking final leaf Q6 with printer's device, several restorations and reinforcements to first leaves, some dampstaining in the center of the first part of the volume which has been restored damaging part of the text which remains leggible, some other staining, soiling, occasional browning, slightly trimmed at the top edge, T4 with small clean tear, a few more tears). Antique vellum (rebacked and recased with new endpapers).

Estimate € 1,800 - 2,500