Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ALDINI, TOBIAS; and CASTELLI, PIETRO. Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano. 22 full-page botanical engravings; woodcut text illustrations. [12], 100, [8] pages, including engraved title. Folio, 313x221 mm, 19th-century cloth, rubbed; scattered mostly moderate foxing, restoration in blank upper margin of title and blank outer margin of L3. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1625

Additional Details

first edition of a catalogue of exotic plants in the Farnese gardens of Rome, including specimens from the New World. Alden 625/49; Hunt 208; Nissen BBI 13.