I discorsi di M. Pietro And. Matthioli ... ne i sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia medicinale
Subtitle: i quai discorsi in diversi luoghi dall'auttore medesimo sono stati accresciuti di varie cose, con molte figure di piante, & d'animali nuovamente aggiunte
Publisher: Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi
Published: 1559
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Translated from: lat; grc
Number of pages: 802
Subjects: Medicinal Plants; Materia Medica; Materia medica; Early works to 1800; Medical Botany
Notes: Includes Mattioli's Italian translation of Dioscorides.

The sixth book is the De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, in some versions called books 6-9.

The discorsi are a revision and enlargement of those published originally with the 1544 edition of the five books of Mattioli's Italian translation of Dioscorides (Libri cinque della historia & materia medicinale) and with the 1548 edition of the six books (Il Dioscoride dell'eccellente dottor medico m. P. Andrea Matthioli)

Large woodcut printer's devices on t.p. and colophon.

506 woodcut plant ill. by Giorgio Liberale. Cf. Nissen.

Durling, R.J. NLM 16th cent., 3022

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 1304