PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ANITA PEEK GILGER, M.D.
[ITALIAN]. FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655). Flora, seu de florum cultura. Lib. IV. Amsterdam: Jansson, 1646. 4o (222 x 167 mm). Engraved frontispiece with engraved portrait on verso, 45 engraved plates illustrating plants, gardening, implements etc., after A.M. Variana, Pietro Cortona, Guido Reni and A Sacchi. (Some light browning and staining.) Contemporary calf (covers detached, worn). Second edition. Pritzel 2877.
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[ITALIAN]. FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655). Flora, seu de florum cultura. Lib. IV. Amsterdam: Jansson, 1646. 4o (222 x 167 mm). Engraved frontispiece with engraved portrait on verso, 45 engraved plates illustrating plants, gardening, implements etc., after A.M. Variana, Pietro Cortona, Guido Reni and A Sacchi. (Some light browning and staining.) Contemporary calf (covers detached, worn). Second edition. Pritzel 2877.
REDI, Francesco (1626-98). Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall Indie. ... e scritte in una lettera al Reverendissimo Padre Atanasio Chircher della Compagnia Di Giesu. Florence: Piero Matini, 1686. 4o (217 x 165 mm). Engraved title vignette and 6 engraved illustration (small hole to blank portion of last plate). 19th-century Italian quarter sheep and marbled boards (wear to spine ends and edges). Provenance: purchased from Quaritch, 1965. Second edition of Redi's illustrated notes on certain curious botanical and zoological specimens from the East and West Indies (including star-anise, vanilla bean, chinchona leaf, and "snake stone"), written in the form of a letter to the Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher in Rome. Nissen ZBI 3321; NLM/Krivatsy 9445; See Sabin 68516.
MONTI, Giuseppe (1682-1760). Catalogi stirpium agri Bononiensis prodromus; gramina ac hujusmodi affinia complectens... Bologna: Pisarri, 1719. 4o (198 x 142 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 engraved plates, including one folding plate. Contemporary vellum (light darkening to spine). Provenance: A.B. Lambert (ownership inscription on paste-down); purchased from G.W. Walford, dated November 1973. FIRST EDITION. Pritzel 6394. -- [Bound with]: MONTI, Joseph. De Monumento diluviano nuper in agro Bononiensi detecto dissertatio... Bologna: Rossi and Socios, 1719. Title printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, one engraved folding plate.
PONTEDERA, Giulio (1688-1757). Anthologia, sive de floris natura libri tres. Padua: Joannes Manfrè, 1720. 2 parts in one volume, 4o (235 x 170 mm). 12 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf. Provenance: purchased from Rousseau-Girard, 1965. FIRST EDITION, of Pontedera's main work, containing his theory of sexuality of plants. Pritzel 7265; not in Nissen or Hunt.
[ZANNICHELLI, Gian G. (1662-1729). Istoria delle piante che nascono ne' lidi intorno a Venezia. Venice, 1735]. 2o (355 x 250 mm). 311 engraved illustrations on 78 engraved plates. (Lacks title, first leaf of preface and frontispiece). Contemporary mottled calf (some wear to edges). Nissen 2192; Pritzel 10452. (5)
REDI, Francesco (1626-98). Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall Indie. ... e scritte in una lettera al Reverendissimo Padre Atanasio Chircher della Compagnia Di Giesu. Florence: Piero Matini, 1686. 4
MONTI, Giuseppe (1682-1760). Catalogi stirpium agri Bononiensis prodromus; gramina ac hujusmodi affinia complectens... Bologna: Pisarri, 1719. 4
PONTEDERA, Giulio (1688-1757). Anthologia, sive de floris natura libri tres. Padua: Joannes Manfrè, 1720. 2 parts in one volume, 4
[ZANNICHELLI, Gian G. (1662-1729). Istoria delle piante che nascono ne' lidi intorno a Venezia. Venice, 1735]. 2