Un altro hemerocalle by Pietro Andrea Matthioli - 1568

Venice: Heredi di Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1573. Large thick quarto, title page with woodcut device, pp (172), 971, (i), (11), illustrated with many hundreds of woodcuts of plants and animals, the title page has a very old paper repair where a name had been excised, worm hole affects the lower margin of fourteen pages of the preliminaries, without loss of text, ten pages of the preliminaries have a very old neat paper restoration, very occasional age-spotting and foxing, some occasional browning due to paper quality variations, one light tear to pages 257/258 without loss, one ink smear on page 259, a few ink spots on pages 32/33 with very slight loss of text. Overall, however, this is an exceptionally clean, tight copy. Bound in full speckled calf (probably early twentieth-century), with one gilt line around upper and lower cover, raised bands on the spine; the upper joint is cracking but still firm and sound. The Hartland Library copy, with bookplate, stamp and ticket pocket on the front endpaper. Also… Read More

1590. Franckfort am Mayn, (Colophon: Johan Feyrabendt), 1590. Folio. (40,5x26 cm.). Contemporary full pigskin over wood, 5 raised bands, panels stamped in blind on covers. 2 clasps. Binding professionally restored at edges and corners, but still with traces of use, some scratches and overall wear. End-papers renewed with old paper. Title-page printed in red and black inside a broad woodcut compartment depicting Dioscorides and the author and with printed mottos around ovals. Both the title-page and the large printer's device at the end are by Jost Amman. (10),460,(2),(35) pp. With more than 800 woodcuts of plants in the text and several illustrations of destilling apparatus in the section "Von Distillier un Brennoefen" (fol.456 ff.). A few leaves neatly repaired at corners and at outer margins. At foot of title an ink-erasement repaired. A few leaves with faint dampstainings to upper and right margins. A few scattered brownspots. Some margins slightly brownspotted. Leaves of index at end with some… Read More