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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
TILLI, Michele Angelo (1655-1740). Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani. Florence: Typis regiae Celsitudinis. Apud Tartinium & Franchium, 1723.
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TILLI, Michele Angelo (1655-1740). Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani. Florence: Typis regiae Celsitudinis. Apud Tartinium & Franchium, 1723.
2° (344 x 235 mm). Half-title, 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. (Dampstaining to upper margin, some darkening, light worming at beginning and end affecting frontispiece, title and plate 50 and a few text leaves.) Contemporary vellum (some light staining). Provenance: The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
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 (GC copy this copy); Hunt 457; Nissen BBI 1967; Pritzel 9356.
2° (344 x 235 mm). Half-title, 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. (Dampstaining to upper margin, some darkening, light worming at beginning and end affecting frontispiece, title and plate 50 and a few text leaves.) Contemporary vellum (some light staining). Provenance: The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
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 (GC copy this copy); Hunt 457; Nissen BBI 1967; Pritzel 9356.