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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Dioscoride, Pedanio / Barbaro, Ermolao / Egnazio , Giovanni Battista

In hoc volumine haec continentur. Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii Veneti In Dioscoridem ab Hermolao Barbaro tralatum annotamenta, 1516

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In the colophon Venice, Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori, 1516. In 2 °. 2 parts in vol. Spaces for drop caps with guide letters, minor restorations to the first and last paper, light humidity marks, 1 paper with bluing, blooms, original parchment binding with title, authors and manuscripts date, reinforcement. Ancient signature of possession on the title page.

Specialist Notes

Genuine first edition copy by Giovanni Battista Egnazio and the definitive translation into Latin by Ermolao Barbaro (1454-1493). & nbsp; The work, printed for the first time in 1479 in Latin by Pietro Padovano, was the source and origin of botanical knowledge until the beginning of the century. XVII. The second part contains the corollaries of Barbaro and is an extended commentary on plants, discussed by Dioscorides with a preface by Egnatius, printed in this edition for the first time. & Nbsp; Pritzel 2301; Wellcome I 1794. Bird 669; Wellcome I, 1794.