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HERBAL, IN ITALIAN Herbolario volgare, nel quale le virtu de le herbe, [colophon:] Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassore, 15 November, 1534
11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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HERBAL, IN ITALIAN
Herbolario volgare, nel quale le virtu de le herbe, Gothic letter, large woodcut vignette representing Saints Cosmas and Damian on title, woodcut of Virgin and Child on verso of 2a6, 151 woodcut illustrations (some full-page, mostly of plants, one of a wine cask in a cellar, one on 05r coloured in green), printer's device on final leaf, 4 leaves (D6, M5, O5 and R1) supplied from another copy and remargined, title-page with 3 very small holes touching letters and 2 short tears, occasional soiling and dampstaining, late nineteenth century half vellum [Hunt 34; Klebs–Becher 16; Nissen BBI 2317], 8vo (155 x 100mm.), [colophon:] Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassore, 15 November, 1534
Footnotes
"The Herbarius... was anonymous, a compilation from medieval writers and from certain classical and Arabian authors, the latter doubtless quoted from translations... It was intended to treat of cheap and homely remedies for the use of the poor, such as could be found in the woods and meadows" (Hunt). The first Italian translation was published as a quarto in 1522, whilst this 1534 edition (which Klebs "calls the second of the Italian translations", and subsequent editions published in Venice) is an octavo.
Provenance: Approximately 30 words of contemporary annotation.





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