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Property from The Holden Arboretum, sold to benefit the Collections
The Warren H. Corning Library of the Holden Arboretum features a special collection of rare books and artworks that supports the arboretum's mission as a living museum of trees and other woody plants. Holden's goal is a library special collection whose synoptic coverage in the arboretum's core subject matter - science, management, uses, and art concerning woody plants and their environments - will make the history of botany, horticulture, and forestry come alive for the arboretum's visitors and constituents. Since Mr. Corning made his generous gifts of books and artworks, which still comprise over 90 percent of the collection, Holden has added items in response to attractive opportunities, via both gift and purchase. In this auction, Holden is offering seventy-three duplicates and alternative editions from its rare book holdings, the proceeds from which will enable the arboretum to improve its collections through acquisition and conservation.
ALLIONI, Carlo (1728-1804). Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Turin: Joannes Michael Briolus, 1785.
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ALLIONI, Carlo (1728-1804). Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Turin: Joannes Michael Briolus, 1785.
3 volumes in one, 2o (407 x 270mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece after Molinari, 3 half-titles, titles printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette, 92 engraved plates by Pietro Peyrolery after Francisco Peyrolery. (Lacking the two additional plates 'i' and 'ii' called for by Stafleu, a few text leaves lightly browned or spotted, a few small mostly marginal stains.) Contemporary half calf, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, cream and blue gilt calf lettering pieces, red edges (overall rubbing, a few small holes in spine). Provenance: Sveno Grigemarus Giuigh (early ownership inscription on title); C.E. Rappaport Libri Rari (bookseller's ticket on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest Italian regional floras, by "il Linneo piemontese" (Stafleu). Allioni was professor of botany at Turin University and correspondent of many leading naturalists of his day, including Linnaeus. The Flora Pedemontana is his most important work: the first two volumes list 2,800 plants divided into 12 classes, and the third volume contains 92 plates illustrating 237 species. The general scheme of the work was influenced by Haller's Historia stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata, published in Berne in 1768. Cleveland Collections 557; Great Flower Books p.47; Nissen BBI 18; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 100; Dunthorne 6. (5)
3 volumes in one, 2o (407 x 270mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece after Molinari, 3 half-titles, titles printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette, 92 engraved plates by Pietro Peyrolery after Francisco Peyrolery. (Lacking the two additional plates 'i' and 'ii' called for by Stafleu, a few text leaves lightly browned or spotted, a few small mostly marginal stains.) Contemporary half calf, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, cream and blue gilt calf lettering pieces, red edges (overall rubbing, a few small holes in spine). Provenance: Sveno Grigemarus Giuigh (early ownership inscription on title); C.E. Rappaport Libri Rari (bookseller's ticket on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest Italian regional floras, by "il Linneo piemontese" (Stafleu). Allioni was professor of botany at Turin University and correspondent of many leading naturalists of his day, including Linnaeus. The Flora Pedemontana is his most important work: the first two volumes list 2,800 plants divided into 12 classes, and the third volume contains 92 plates illustrating 237 species. The general scheme of the work was influenced by Haller's Historia stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata, published in Berne in 1768. Cleveland Collections 557; Great Flower Books p.47; Nissen BBI 18; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 100; Dunthorne 6. (5)