INNOCENTE ALESSANDRI and PIETRO SCATTAGLIA Descrizione degli Animali. Venice: Carlo Palese, 1771-1775. 4 volumes in two, 2° (442 x 325mm). Four engraved additional titles and 100 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured, four engraved headpieces. (Blank outer margins of each leaf in first volume and the first title in the second volume neatly extended, neat repairs to outer blank margins of 14 leaves in volume 2, including one plate.) Modern red morocco. FIRST EDITION OF PROBABLY THE FINEST VENETIAN NATURAL-HISTORY WORK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY The charming plates were 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. Brunet V. 187; Morazzoni Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento p.208; Nissen ZBI 79. (2)
INNOCENTE ALESSANDRI and PIETRO SCATTAGLIA Descrizione degli Animali. Venice: Carlo Palese, 1771-1775. 4 volumes in two, 2° (442 x 325mm). Four engraved additional titles and 100 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured, four engraved headpieces. (Blank outer margins of each leaf in first volume and the first title in the second volume neatly extended, neat repairs to outer blank margins of 14 leaves in volume 2, including one plate.) Modern red morocco. FIRST EDITION OF PROBABLY THE FINEST VENETIAN NATURAL-HISTORY WORK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY The charming plates were 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. Brunet V. 187; Morazzoni Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento p.208; Nissen ZBI 79. (2)
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