ALESSANDRI, Innocente and Pietro SCATTAGLIA Descrizione degli Animali. Venice: Carlo Palese, 1773-1775. Volumes III & IV only (of 4) in one volume, 2° (492 x 357mm). Two engraved additional titles and 100 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured, two engraved headpieces. Contemporary half calf (spine and extremities worn). FIRST EDITION. The Descrizione , probably the finest Venetian natural-history book of the 18th-century, was completed in 4 volumes (with 200 plates) but was originally published in monthly fascicles. According to Pietro Gradenigo, a noted Venetian bibliophile who opened his library to his fellow citizens, the work was sold as a set of hand-coloured engravings; the text (probably by Lodovico Leschi) was issued free of charge at the end of each part. Nissen ZBI 79; Morazzoni Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento p.208.
ALESSANDRI, Innocente and Pietro SCATTAGLIA Descrizione degli Animali. Venice: Carlo Palese, 1773-1775. Volumes III & IV only (of 4) in one volume, 2° (492 x 357mm). Two engraved additional titles and 100 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured, two engraved headpieces. Contemporary half calf (spine and extremities worn). FIRST EDITION. The Descrizione , probably the finest Venetian natural-history book of the 18th-century, was completed in 4 volumes (with 200 plates) but was originally published in monthly fascicles. According to Pietro Gradenigo, a noted Venetian bibliophile who opened his library to his fellow citizens, the work was sold as a set of hand-coloured engravings; the text (probably by Lodovico Leschi) was issued free of charge at the end of each part. Nissen ZBI 79; Morazzoni Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento p.208.
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