COLONNA, Fabio. Fabii Columnae Lyncei Phytobasanos [graece] cui accessit Vita Fabii et Lynceorum Notitia Annotationesque in Phyrobasanos Iano Planco Ariminensi Auctore et in Senensi Academia Anatomes Publico Professore.Firenze, Gaetano Viviani, 1744 4to, mm. 280x210; sewing cardboard binding; pp. 2 not numbered, LII, 134, 2 n.; 38 copper plates depicting botanic species. On the Title-page vignette copper with the lynx, the emblem of the Accademia dei Lincei, 2 warheads representatives medals, two initials engraved on copper. Fresh specimen with wide margins, uncut.
Second edition enlarged and beautifully illustrated. In this important work the naturalist Neapolitan describes 80 new plant species identified by him and shall state the medical-pharmaceutical properties. Column was epileptic and devoted himself to the study of botany to find herbs and concoctions from plants that could be used to improve the symptoms and effects of epilepsy. The first edition, of great rarity, had appeared in Naples in 1592; in this there is the important addition of the life of Fabio Colonna and history of the Accademia dei Lincei, written by John Bianchi under the transparent pseudonym Janus Plancus. D.B.I., XXVII / p. 286: "The work ... cost the column ... the collapse of its finances, because, instead of woodcuts wanted to prepare himself 35 fine copper engravings, used for the first time for such a purpose. In C. illustrates them the plants found in the area of Naples, comparing them with the descriptions of the ancient ... C. proves keen observer botanical ". Nissen, B.B.I. 386; Pritzel 1822; Carutti, St. Accademia dei Lincei, p. 179/n. 6; Bibl. Botanica Caldesi, n. 150; D.B.I., XXVII/p. 286; Cleveland Collections 401. The lot is offered with a valid export licence.
COLONNA, Fabio. Fabii Columnae Lyncei Phytobasanos [graece] cui accessit Vita Fabii et Lynceorum Notitia Annotationesque in Phyrobasanos Iano Planco Ariminensi Auctore et in Senensi Academia Anatomes Publico Professore.Firenze, Gaetano Viviani, 1744 4to, mm. 280x210; sewing cardboard binding; pp. 2 not numbered, LII, 134, 2 n.; 38 copper plates depicting botanic species. On the Title-page vignette copper with the lynx, the emblem of the Accademia dei Lincei, 2 warheads representatives medals, two initials engraved on copper. Fresh specimen with wide margins, uncut.
Second edition enlarged and beautifully illustrated. In this important work the naturalist Neapolitan describes 80 new plant species identified by him and shall state the medical-pharmaceutical properties. Column was epileptic and devoted himself to the study of botany to find herbs and concoctions from plants that could be used to improve the symptoms and effects of epilepsy. The first edition, of great rarity, had appeared in Naples in 1592; in this there is the important addition of the life of Fabio Colonna and history of the Accademia dei Lincei, written by John Bianchi under the transparent pseudonym Janus Plancus. D.B.I., XXVII / p. 286: "The work ... cost the column ... the collapse of its finances, because, instead of woodcuts wanted to prepare himself 35 fine copper engravings, used for the first time for such a purpose. In C. illustrates them the plants found in the area of Naples, comparing them with the descriptions of the ancient ... C. proves keen observer botanical ". Nissen, B.B.I. 386; Pritzel 1822; Carutti, St. Accademia dei Lincei, p. 179/n. 6; Bibl. Botanica Caldesi, n. 150; D.B.I., XXVII/p. 286; Cleveland Collections 401. The lot is offered with a valid export licence.
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