TILLI MICHELANGELO Catalogus plantarum horti Pisani 1723 L

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TILLI, MICHELANGELO. Catalogus plantarum horti Pisani. 50 engraved botanical plates; 2 folding engraved plans; lacks the portrait. xii, [2], 187, [1] pages, including half-title. Folio, 359x245 mm, contemporary boards, lacks backstrip, binding broken; intermittent dampstaining in upper and outer margins affecting some plates. Florence: Tartini & Franchi, 1723

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"The Botanical Garden at Pisa was founded around 1543 and was . . . one of the first such gardens in Europe . . . the long alphabetical list of plants in this volume is one of the most important for the early eighteenth century"--Hunt 457. Nissen BBI 1967.