Herbario novo ... Con figure, che rappresentano le vive piante, che nascono in tutta Europa, & nell'Indie orientali, & occidental

1602 HERBAL Castore Durante Herbario Nuovo Plants Medicine Illustrated Mattioli

Castore Durante was a 16th-century Italian scholar who is best-remembered for his major work "Hebrario Nuovo". This work, which was first published in 1585, is a collection of descriptions of plants and their medical uses and healing properties. The plants detailed in this work were from Europe and the East and West Indies with information on how to identify them in their indigenous environment. According to Hunt,

"This was a popular Italian herbal that was reprinted in Italian, and translated and published in several other languages, for a number of years. The plant descriptions are written in the form of poems which Arber describes as 'pleasingly unscientific"

This highly coveted and desirable 1602 second edition is extremely valuable much in part to the hundreds of in-text woodcuts in the style of Mattioli.

Item number: #23056

Price: $2500

DURANTE, Castore

Herbario novo ... Con figure, che rappresentano le vive piante, che nascono in tutta Europa, & nell'Indie orientali, & occidental

Venetia: Appresso li Sessa, 1602. Famous second edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages

o [12], 492 (i.e., 480), [52]

o 938 woodcut engravings

· References: Hunt 151; Wellcome I, 1960

· Language: Italian

· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure

· Size: ~13.25in X 9.75in (33.5cm x 24.5cm)

· exceedingly rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at over $7,000

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