(Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. ==References== 16-460 num Bl. With numerous woodcuts. Title missing. 38,5 x 24 cm. Half-perchment of the C.E. (Berieben, begebten, upper capital with flaw). (Frankkfurt, John Feyrabende, 1590). VD 16, M 1614. See Nissen 1311. Durling 3019. Isphording 82. – Early edition. The first edition was published in 1586. "The illustrations are from Conrad Gessner's estate, which Camerarius had acquired" (Nissen). The text woodcuts show flowers, herbs, vegetable and fruit plants as well as various fruits. Among other things, it is reported that "Indian nuts or sea nuts" are "canned in Apothecalypse wool" ... These fruits are very large, hanging on the tree, like large mellows, stored in large barks, which are externally black-red, hard and tough ..." (sheet 97). – 47 unnumbered leaves and the title are missing. Inside heavily loaded, paper-related tanned, with many partly deposited flaws and cracks, with wormweed, brown- and finger-spotty, kink-spury, occasionally with hs. Notes on the edge and in the text.