[Mattioli (Pietro Andrea)] - Herbar aneb Bylinar,
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third edition in Czech, title printed in red & black within elaborate wood-engraved border, woodcut botanical vigettes throughout, woodcut decorations and initials, title and first 5 ff. with repairs to margins with some loss, 11 ff. including title silked, some further repairs, mostly to margins, further occasional loss, general browning heavy in places, modern morocco, some sunning, [cf. Nissen BBI 1315], folio, Prague, Daniel Adam Weleslawnja , 1596. The third edition in Czech of Mattioli's commentary on the materia medica of Dioscorides, originally printed in Latin in 1554, this edition seemingly reusing the woodcuts from the 1586 Latin edition of De Plantis Epitome Utilissima , with the additions made to the detailed flowers and seed heads done by Camerarius after Gesner's drawings.
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[Mattioli (Pietro Andrea)] - Herbar aneb Bylinar,
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