Lyon, Claude Prost, 1655.
Un volume in folio (355x228 mm), (8)-lxxxxv-(14)-605-(32) pages. reliure : Plein veau de l'époque, dos à six nerfs orné et doré. Coiffe de tête abîmée. Nombreuses fines galeries de vers généralement marginales, atteinte du texte minime.
références: Heirs of Hippocrates [239.5 (ed.1642) : "A careful student of botany, he described 100 new plants and coordinated the medical botany of his time in his Discorsi ("Commentaries") on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides. In addition to identifying the plants originally described by Dioscorides, Mattioli added descriptions of some plants not in Dioscorides and not of any known medical use, thus marking a transition from the study of plants as a field of medicine to a study of interest in its own right. In addition, the woodcuts in Mattioli's work were of a high standard, allowing recognition of the plant even when the text was obscure. A noteworthy inclusion is an early variety of tomato, the first documented example of the vegetable being grown and eaten in Europe."].
provenance: Ex libris manuscrit Francois Esnaut, mayenne 1698.
Prix : 1200 €