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MORANDI, Giambattista. Historia botanica practica, seu plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent... Mediolani: Milan, 1744.
2o (423 x 270 mm). Engraved title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 68 engraved plates by the author. (Old bookseller's description tipped to title.) Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Charles Carmichael and Mary Annabel Lacaita of Selham House, Selham (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this iconography of medicinal plants. Morandi was a medical botanist and also a minor artist, and the plates are drawn and engraved by him. Hunt 522; Nissen BBI 1406; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6290.
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FIRST EDITION of this iconography of medicinal plants. Morandi was a medical botanist and also a minor artist, and the plates are drawn and engraved by him. Hunt 522; Nissen BBI 1406; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6290.
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