FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655). Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu. Libri quatuor . Rome: sumptibus Hermanni Scheus, 1646. 2° (341 x 234mm). Etched additional title, 101 engraved plates on 100 sheets by Cornelis Bloemaerts and others. (Occasional small holes, tears or repairs to the margins of about 12 leaves.) Old vellum (spine neatly repaired). Provenance : Polling, Franciscan convent (bookplate, dated 1744). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO CITRUS FRUIT, and one of the most attractive of all Baroque botanical works. The plates of the fruit were drawn and engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert 'one of the great Dutch seventeenth-century botanical artists' (Hunt). Hunt 243; Nissen BBI 621.
FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655). Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu. Libri quatuor . Rome: sumptibus Hermanni Scheus, 1646. 2° (341 x 234mm). Etched additional title, 101 engraved plates on 100 sheets by Cornelis Bloemaerts and others. (Occasional small holes, tears or repairs to the margins of about 12 leaves.) Old vellum (spine neatly repaired). Provenance : Polling, Franciscan convent (bookplate, dated 1744). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO CITRUS FRUIT, and one of the most attractive of all Baroque botanical works. The plates of the fruit were drawn and engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert 'one of the great Dutch seventeenth-century botanical artists' (Hunt). Hunt 243; Nissen BBI 621.
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