FERRARI, Giovanni Battista. - Lot 115

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FERRARI, Giovanni Battista. - Lot 115
FERRARI, Giovanni Battista. Flora overo cultura di fiori [...] distinta in quattro libri e trasportata dalla lingua latina all'italiana da Lodovico Aureli... In Roma, per Pier' Ant.[onio] Facciotti, 1638. Small in-4, (8) ff. (including engraved title and title-frontispiece), 520-(28) pp. 44 engravings. Contemporary soft ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine (vellum soiled, laces missing, quires out of order, some leaves slightly browned, marginal defects including dampstaining and soiling, small tear affecting engraving 387). First Italian edition, translated by Lodovico Aureli; A 17th-century treatise on floriculture, considered a masterpiece of Baroque chalcography and garden design. Sought-after for its wealth of illustrations, exactly reproducing the engravings of the Latin edition of 1633. Only one entry in the CCFr (BnF). By the Jesuit Giovanni Battista Ferrari, who was in charge of Francesco Barberini's gardens in Rome. The work is dedicated to him because the Barberinis, who supported his work, financed it. With 46 black copperplate figures by Johann Friedrich Greuter and Claude Mellan after drawings by Andrea Sacchi, Guido Reni, Pietro da Cortona or Anna Maria Vaiani... Includes an engraved title page, an engraved title-frontispiece and 44 large full-page copper engravings, engraved on the recto only, showing gardening tools, various species of flowers, bouquets and a series of allegories... Some flowers are described here for the first time, including species from South Africa, and this work contains the second appearance of a microscopic image (seeds) in a book. Nissen, BBI 620.
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