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AMBROSINI, Giacinto. Phytologiae; hoc est De Plantis partis primae tomus primus. Bologna: sumptibus Haeredum Evangelistae de Duccijs, 1666. FIRST EDITION.
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AMBROSINI, Giacinto (1605-1671). Phytologiae; hoc est De Plantis partis primae tomus primus. Bologna: sumptibus Haeredum Evangelistae de Duccijs, 1666.
Volume I (all published), folio (312 x 207mm). Allegorical engraved frontispiece showing a large garden, 36 full-page woodcuts in the text. (Some minor occasional mostly marginal foxing.) Contemporary vellum over boards (spine repaired at head with vellum, covers bowed). Provenance: Congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri Bologna (oval stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION. The Phytologiae was intended to be the first of a two-volume dictionary of plants with the second volume planned to be devoted to trees was never published due to Ambrosini’s death. The woodcuts in this work on herbaceous plants were done by Lorenzo Tinti. "Giancinto (Hyacintho) was director of the Botanical Gardens at Bologna from 1657-1665, following the directorship of his brother Bartolomeo. The genus Ambrosinia was named after the two brothers" (Hunt).
Hunt 303; Pritzel 132; BM(NH) 36; Wellcome II, 39. RARE.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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