The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides, Illustrated by a Byzantine A.D. 512, Englished by John Goodyer A.D. 1655. Edited And First Printed A.D. 1933 By John Gunther ... With Three Hundred and Ninety-Six Illustrations.
New York: Privately Printed for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1996. Limited Edition reprint. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. x + 704pp. Full leather binding, raised bands & gilt lettering on spine, gilt decorations to boards. All-edges-gilt. Marbled endpapers. Cloth bookmark. B/w frontis & illustrations. Index. A deluxe subscribers facsimile of the 1934 Oxford University Press edition of this important & ancient herbal text: "The Greek Herbal" (more widely known by its Latin title: "De Materia Medica") of Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40—90 AD) which was the great encyclopedia of herbal medicine and related medicinal substances of classical antiquity and was in use for the best part of two millennia, forming the core of the European pharmacopeia right up to the 20th century. A separate small 38 page stapled booklet from the publishers giving an overview of the work is loosely-inserted. A Fine copy (no dust jacket as issued). Item #69947
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