Dec 08, 2016 - Sale 2434

Sale 2434 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ALDINI, TOBIAS and CASTELLI, PIETRO. Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam Plantarum, Que Continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano. 22 engraved plates, woodcut text illustrations, engraved title, [xii], 100, [8] pages. Small folio, 13x9 inches, modern mottled calf, spine gilt, edges speckled red, very light rubbing; some repairs to title-page, mild foxing throughout, few printer's ink smudges, small marginal loss reinstated on final leaf. Rome, 1625
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Fine engravings depicting exotic plant specimens obtained and cultivated by Aldini in the Roman Renaissance gardens of the Palazzo Farnese.