ZANONI, Giacomo. Rariorum Stirpium Historia... Bologna: L. Dalla Volpe, 1742. 2 o (356 x 245 mm). Additional engraved title (with small ink stains) engraved portrait and 185 engraved plates (many plates misbound). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine gilt with red lettering piece. Provenance : purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1966. FIRST EDITION of the enlarged version of the Istoria Botanica , much augumented by use of a manuscript on the plants of the Middle East by Pietro Foglia (name in religion Mattaeus a S. Joseph) and enlarged with 105 new plates. The work was translated into Latin by Gaetano Monti, Zanoni's successor as director of the Bologna Botanical Garden. Hunt 520; Nissen BBI 2194; Pritzel 10459.
ZANONI, Giacomo. Rariorum Stirpium Historia... Bologna: L. Dalla Volpe, 1742. 2 o (356 x 245 mm). Additional engraved title (with small ink stains) engraved portrait and 185 engraved plates (many plates misbound). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine gilt with red lettering piece. Provenance : purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1966. FIRST EDITION of the enlarged version of the Istoria Botanica , much augumented by use of a manuscript on the plants of the Middle East by Pietro Foglia (name in religion Mattaeus a S. Joseph) and enlarged with 105 new plates. The work was translated into Latin by Gaetano Monti, Zanoni's successor as director of the Bologna Botanical Garden. Hunt 520; Nissen BBI 2194; Pritzel 10459.
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