Petri Andreae Matthioli ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia : adiectis quamplurimis plantarum, & animalium imaginibus, quæ in priore editione non habentur, eodem auctore. His accessit eivsdem Apologia adversvs Amathum Lusitanum
This is a 1560 Venetian herbal, Pietro Andrea Mattioli's expanded commentary on Dioscorides' six books of medical materia, printed by the Valgrisi press for physicians, apothecaries and botanists. The four plates show woody-stemmed herbs with leaves, flower spikes and fibrous roots drawn in fine parallel hatching on a plain page, a clear model for naturalistic botanical line work a designer could adapt for labels or patterns.
