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SAVI (GAETANO) Flora italiana. Ossia raccolta delle piante più belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia, 3 vol., Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1818-1826
27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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SAVI (GAETANO)
Flora italiana. Ossia raccolta delle piante più belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia, 3 vol., 120 stipple-engraved plates by Antonio Serantoni, printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue guards, some foxing (mainly on tissue guards but slightly affecting plates), slight oxidisation in the area around the flower on approximately one quarter of the plates, corners cut from front free endpapers, uncut in near contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, old gilt red morocco spine labels preserved, a few nicks to fore-edges [Dunthorne 271; Great Flower Books, p.75; Nissen BBI 1732; Pritzel 8068], folio (467 x 320mm.), Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1818-1826
Footnotes
RARE ITALIAN FLORILEGIUM by the director of the Botanical Garden at Pisa, devoted to native and and exotic plants cultivated in Italy at the time. The use of stipple-engraving was an attempt to emulate the works of Redouté, and many of the drawings are bold and decorative.
Provenance: Jean-Louis Burckhardt (descendant of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who discovered Petra, and Jacob Burckhardt, author of Rinascimento in Italia); and thence by descent to his granddaughter.





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