Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
REDI, FRANCESCO. Esperienze intorno a Diverse Cose Naturali, e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall´Indie. 6 engraved plates. [6], 152 pages. 4to, 240x175 mm, 18th(?)-century vellum boards with leather lettering piece, spine darkened and spotted, chipped at bottom, binding slightly cocked; hole in front free endpaper, fingerprints on title, first few text gatherings heavily browned, dampstain in several text leaves, plates toned with dampstains in lower corners. Contemporary inscription on title ("Mei . . . auctoris munus" [i. e., gift of the author]); early signature of Giuseppe Molinari. wide-margined copy. Florence: All'Insegna della Nave, 1671

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first edition of a work on flora and fauna of the New World and Asia. Alden 671/228; Garrison-Morton 294.1 ("includes the first scientific study of an electric fish"); Krivatsy 9444; Prandi 16.