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HERBARIUM - ITALIAN A seventeenth century Italian Hortus Siccus, compiled by Giovanni Macchion at Padua, captioned "Joannes Machionus Patavinus/Giardinarius Horti Artenoveri/Psentem librum fecit, anno Do:ni 1688", [Padua, 1688] image 1
HERBARIUM - ITALIAN A seventeenth century Italian Hortus Siccus, compiled by Giovanni Macchion at Padua, captioned "Joannes Machionus Patavinus/Giardinarius Horti Artenoveri/Psentem librum fecit, anno Do:ni 1688", [Padua, 1688] image 2
HERBARIUM - ITALIAN A seventeenth century Italian Hortus Siccus, compiled by Giovanni Macchion at Padua, captioned "Joannes Machionus Patavinus/Giardinarius Horti Artenoveri/Psentem librum fecit, anno Do:ni 1688", [Padua, 1688] image 3
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HERBARIUM - ITALIAN
A seventeenth century Italian Hortus Siccus, compiled by Giovanni Macchion at Padua, captioned "Joannes Machionus Patavinus/Giardinarius Horti Artenoveri/Psentem librum fecit, anno Do:ni 1688", [Padua, 1688]

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HERBARIUM - ITALIAN

A seventeenth century Italian Hortus Siccus, compiled by Giovanni Macchion at Padua, captioned "Joannes Machionus Patavinus/Giardinarius Horti Artenoveri/Psentem librum fecit, anno Do:ni 1688", 182 sheets (numbered 1-177 in ink, endpapers unnumbered), opening leaf with a 5-line recipe for mounting samples, second leaf with "title", 140 with mounted plant specimens (mostly between 5 and 10 per page, recto only, a very few missing), all neatly captioned in a contemporary hand, 4-page manuscript index (letters A-C only, never completed) at end, a 30-page manuscript index ("Index Alphabeticatis Plantarum 100020") listing the 902 specimens (in Latin, with several common names in English) loosely inserted, contemporary blindstamped calf over paste-boards, worn with loss to extremities of spine, folio (453 x 300mm.), [Padua, 1688]

Footnotes

A well presented seventeenth century Italian Herbarium, with upwards of 900 mounted specimens, compiled by Giovanni Macchion (died 1694), head gardener at the botanical gardens in Padua. Another example of a collection of dried plants compiled by Macchion was purchased by Hans Sloane when in the city, and is now housed in The Sloane Herbarium (H.S.29), Natural History Museum, London.

Provenance: "Diana Daly, Dunsandle 1947. From Burley-on-the-Hill, believed to have belonged to Sir John Finch (1626-1682)", inscription on front free endpaper; by descent to present owner.

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