Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DURANTE, CASTORE. Herbario Novo. Woodcut portraits of the author and the botanist Giacomo Antonio Cortusi on title verso; hundreds of botanical text woodcuts. [12], 492, [52] pages. Folio, 292x202 mm, modern 1/4 vellum with spine title in ink; margins trimmed just touching top line of title, marginal soiling and dampstaining through much of volume, occasional worming affecting text on around 35 leaves toward beginning, generally confined to blank margins elsewhere, scattered ink blots, 2 leaves at end reinforced in gutters. Bookplate of Thomas Ashby. Venice: Sessa, 1602

Additional Details

Second edition of a profusely illustrated herbal originally published in 1585, with plant descriptions in Latin verse and Italian prose. Alden 602/41; Arber, pages 102-03; Krivatsy 3571; Nissen BBI 569.