(BOTANICAL) Tilli Michelangelo Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pis

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(BOTANICAL.) Tilli, Michelangelo. Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani. Half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette, 2 folding engraved garden plans, 50 engraved botanical plates, (lacks portrait frontispiece). Folio, 14x9 3/4 inches, contemporary plain boards, backstrip lost, partially disbound; uncut; light dampstain. Florence: Tartini & Franchi, 1723

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Richly engraved plates of specimens cultivated at the Botanical Garden of Pisa, established circa 1544 by Cosimo de Medici, and being one of the earliest such parks in Europe. "The long alphabetical list of plants in this volume is one of the most important for the early eighteenth century" (Hunt 457).