first edition
2015
by ELLIOTT, Brent, with Luigi Guerrini and David Pegler
Royal Collection Trust, 2015. First Edition. First Printings. Three quarto volumes (28.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; dustjackets; [viii],240; [viii],241-538; [viii],539-1297pp; illus. Upper right board corners gently bumped on all three volumes, else clean and Near Fine in Near Fine dustjackets, some some trivial wear to extremities and corresponding wrinkling at upper right corners. Three-volume catalog presenting "five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical drawings, now in teh library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in the 1620's to further the researches of the scientific society he had founded in Rome, the Accademia dei Lincei, of which Cassiano dal Pozzo was a member. The manuscripts were acquired by Cassiano in 1633 following Cesi's death, together with three companion manuscripts dedicated to drawings of fungi" (from front flap). (Inventory #: 43462)