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TILLI, Michele Angelo (1655-1740). Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani. Florence: Typis regiae Celsitudinis. Apud Tartinium & Franchium, 1723.
2o (337 x 223 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 2 folding engraved plans of the garden by Cosimo Mogalli, 50 engraved plates by Mogalli after Tilli. (Lacking half-title, title mounted on stub, first text leaf margins reinforced, a few leaves lighly spotted.) Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, speckled edges (lightly chipping, a few worm holes, light staining).
FIRST EDITION of this valuable record of The Botanical Garden at Pisa, founded in about 1543, one of the first such gardens in Europe. Hunt notes that the alphabetical list of plants in this work is "one of the most important of the eighteenth century." Tilli and his catalog were regarded highly by his peers. Pier Antonio Micheli, one of Tilli's contemporaries, named the genus Tillaea, one of the Crassulaceae after him; Linnaeus accepted the name, citing Tilli's Catalogus in his Species Plantarum (1753). Cleveland Collections 351, HA Copy this copy; Hunt 457; Nissen BBI 1967; Pritzel 9356.
2o (337 x 223 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 2 folding engraved plans of the garden by Cosimo Mogalli, 50 engraved plates by Mogalli after Tilli. (Lacking half-title, title mounted on stub, first text leaf margins reinforced, a few leaves lighly spotted.) Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, speckled edges (lightly chipping, a few worm holes, light staining).
FIRST EDITION of this valuable record of The Botanical Garden at Pisa, founded in about 1543, one of the first such gardens in Europe. Hunt notes that the alphabetical list of plants in this work is "one of the most important of the eighteenth century." Tilli and his catalog were regarded highly by his peers. Pier Antonio Micheli, one of Tilli's contemporaries, named the genus Tillaea, one of the Crassulaceae after him; Linnaeus accepted the name, citing Tilli's Catalogus in his Species Plantarum (1753). Cleveland Collections 351, HA Copy this copy; Hunt 457; Nissen BBI 1967; Pritzel 9356.