Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum. Rome: Jacobi Mascardi, 1625. Folio (345 x 232 mm). +6, A-B6, C-L4, M6. Engraved title, 22 full-page engraved plates, woodcuts throughout, all within the collation. Uncut in modern boards. 2 leaves browned, some light spotting and toning, light tideline to fore-edge margin of 2/3rds of the volume, binding with corners rubbed, spine damaged. FIRST EDITION of this catalog of rare plants in garden of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese on Palatine Hill in Rome. Aldini, a physician, served as director of the Farnese garden. Castelli, who co-wrote the above work with his friend Aldini, later served as professor at the University of Messina and was praefectus of its botanical garden.
Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum. Rome: Jacobi Mascardi, 1625. Folio (345 x 232 mm). +6, A-B6, C-L4, M6. Engraved title, 22 full-page engraved plates, woodcuts throughout, all within the collation. Uncut in modern boards. 2 leaves browned, some light spotting and toning, light tideline to fore-edge margin of 2/3rds of the volume, binding with corners rubbed, spine damaged. FIRST EDITION of this catalog of rare plants in garden of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese on Palatine Hill in Rome. Aldini, a physician, served as director of the Farnese garden. Castelli, who co-wrote the above work with his friend Aldini, later served as professor at the University of Messina and was praefectus of its botanical garden.
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