MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA
COMMENTARII IN SEX LIBROS
£625
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
Pedacii Dioscordis Anazarbei de Medica Materia. Venice: Valgrisi, 1565. Folio, portrait and many woodcuts throughout text, later calf, bookplate, writing to initial blanks dated 1765 explaining a little about the book and its provenance, by Adam Donald, title-page laid down and trimmed to upper margin, some soiling throughout, all woodcuts visible but most covered in thin green wash paint, long closed tear to Kk4 repaired to lower margin only, small ink and pencil annotation to 5F2, final leaves, particularly 6H6 worn and soiled, creased and becoming loose, some rubbing to covers, lacking clasps [Hunt 94]
Footnote
Note: Pietro Andrea Mattioli was an Italian physician and botanist, living between 1500 and 1577. "First enlarged edition. The first edition was published in Italian in 1544, and the first in Latin in 1554, but the 1565 edition is the first augmented by Mattioli's fuller notes and has always been the most valued for its completeness." [Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Pittsburgh, 1958, volume 1, p.103]
Provenance: 1765 in the possession of Adam Donald, physician and herbalist at Kirktown of Belhelvie[?], who received it from Ann Bigland, seemingly as thanks for restoring her health after no London physician could; Purchased from the heirs of Adam Donald "commonly called the Prophet of Belhelvie[?]" by K. Uq. [?] of Meldrum, May 22nd 1781; Bookplate of Keith Urquhart of Meldrum