Name of printer and date of publication from colophon.

Translation into Czech of: Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis de medica materia, first printed Venice, 1554.

Edited by Adam Huber z Rizenpachu and Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, with additions by Joachim Camerarius. The original text of Dioscorides Pedanius is omitted in this edition.

Among the American plants treated in the work are West Indian balsalm, guaiacum, sasparilla, opuntia, maize, common peppers, chrysanthemum peruvianum, and hyoscamus peruvianus.

Signatures: *-⁶ (6 verso blank) A-V⁶ W⁶ X-2V⁶ 2W⁶ 2X-3V⁶ 3W⁶ 3X-4F⁶ 4G-4V⁴ 4W⁴ 4X-4Y⁴ Z² chi1.

Errata: leaf [62] recto and verso, 3rd count.

Includes indexes for terms in Czech, German, Latin, Greek, Spanish and French.

Ornamental woodcut title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes numerous woodcuts of plants and herbs.

Pritzel 15993.

Wellcome cat of printed books I:4155.

Nissen, C. Botanische buchillustration (2d. ed.), 1315.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 596/69.