DURANTE, Castore.- HERBARIO | NOVO | DI CARTORE DVRANTE | MEDICO, ET CITTADINO ROMANO. | Con Figure, che ...

DURANTE, Castore.- HERBARIO | NOVO | DI CARTORE DVRANTE | MEDICO, ET CITTADINO ROMANO. | Con Figure, che rappresentanole viue Piante, che nascono in tutte Europa, | & nell’Indie Orientali, & Occidentali. | Con Verse Latini, que comprendono le facoltà dei simplici medicamento. | [...] | [gravura xilográfica com a marca da casa impressora].- In Venetia: Apresso li Sessa. MDCXVII, [1617].- [12], 492 [i. é 480], [52] p.: il.; 30 cm.- E.
Castor Durante (1529-1590), Italian physician, botanist and poet of the Renaissance, born in Gualdo Tadino (Perugia), was chief physician at the court of Pope Sixtus V. Fourth edition of his masterpiece, originally published in 1585, illustrated with the portraits (medallions) of the 56-year-old author and botanist Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513-1603), on the back of the title page; disseminated throughout the text, 933 xilographies (only five non-botanical ones). On the front page, the mark of the Sessas, a prestigious Venetian printing house from the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring a cat with a mouse in its mouth, with the motto "Dissimiliem in fidas sotieas". At the end there is an addendum with "Figvre aggivnte senza discorsi", with 52 engravings on 10 sheets. On the back of the last page, a register and a colophon: "In Trevigia Apresso Angelo Reghettini. Per li Sessa. MDCXVII". Edition with numerous pagination errors, the most important of which are: p. 108 to 119; p. 286 to 289. The copy, slightly handled, has section I bound after section K, but it is complete. Slight browning and marginal imperfections in the last 12 leaves.; occasional minor tears, but with support; some uncontemporary annotations. Full sheepskin contemporary binding slightly worn and lacking the flyleaves. The collation corresponds exactly to that given in "The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collection" (The Kent State University Press, 1992), 165. Pritzel, 2552.