Prosperi Alpini De plantis Aegypti liber :
In quo non pauci, qui circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicin[ae] admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt : accessit etiam liber de balsamo aliàs editus.

Description

Main Author

Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617

Related Names

Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617.
Franceschi, Francesco de, printer.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Venetiis : Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, MDXCII [1592]

Subjects

Medicinal plants.
Botany.
Balsams.
Medicinal plants > Medicinal plants / Egypt > Medicinal plants / Egypt / Early works to 1800.
Balsams > Balsams / Early works to 1800.
Botany > Botany / Egypt > Botany / Egypt / Pictorial works > Botany / Egypt / Pictorial works / Early works to 1800.
Botany > Botany / Egypt > Botany / Egypt / Early works to 1800.
Egypt.
Woodcuts (prints) > Woodcuts (prints) / Italy > Woodcuts (prints) / Italy / 16th century.
Pictorial works.
Early works.

Note

Woodcut title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials.
Errata: final page.
Signatures: a⁴ A-X⁴ a-b⁴.
"Liber de balsamo" has separate title page (leaf [58]r, Q2r): Prosperi Alpini De balsamo, dialogus. In quo verissima balsami plantae, opobalsami, carpobalsami, & xilobalsami cognitio, plerisque antiquorum atque iuniorum medicorum occulta, nunc elucescit. Ad illustrissimos et sapientissimos Patauinae Academiae curatores.
Includes 50 woodcut illustrations, of which 38 are full-page.
Errors in pagination: pages 37-40 are duplicated in numbering.
The leaves are printed on both sides.
"Ad Ioannem Maurocenum Antonij filium patricium Venetum clarissimum."

Physical Description

[4], 80, that is, 84, [8] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)

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