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Tuesday 20 June 2023 e Wednesday 21 June 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

328

Medicina - Botanica - Castore, Durante

New herbarium, 1718

Estimate

€ 600 - 900

Sold

€ 1.419

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Michele Hertz, 1718. In folio, (4cc), 480pp, (13, 1cb). Title page in red and black with chalcographic vignette (Caravel at sea under full sail, within an illustrated frame. Motto Fortiter occupies portum). Woodcut initials and friezes, illustrations, text in double frame. Binding in full coeval rigid parchment, handwritten title on the spine, ribs.

Specialist Notes

This extraordinary work written by the Roman physician Castore Durante (Gualdo Tadino, 1529 - Viterbo, 1590), originally published in 1585, brings together more than 900 plant species, arranged alphabetically according to their common name, accompanied by numerous woodcut illustrations probably made by Isabella Parasole.

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