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The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.

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MORANDI, Giambattista.

Historia Botanica Practica: seu plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura, descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptus desumptae, ac aeneis tabulus delineatae, atque ad vivum ex prototypo expressae, nec non in classes XXXV. Distributae, ut facilius cujusque simplicis genus, ac species dignoscantur.

[Milan] Mediolani, Joseph Galeatium, 1744.

£5,000.00
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The uncommon first edition of this important work, 'one of the most beautiful and important Italian herbals of the eighteenth century' (Heirs of Hippocrates 818), splendidly illustrated with 68 engraved plates depicting 544 species. This copy with distinguished provenance, the binding bearing the gilt arms of the German-born Danish politician and diplomat Adam Gottlob von Moltke (1710-1792), a favourite of King Frederick V of Denmark-Norway, as well as the bookplate of the prominent Swedish collector Christian Hammer (1818-1905).

First edition; folio (42 x 26.5 cm); engraved half-title, vignette title, and 68 plates, bookplates, a little light spotting, mainly at the edges, and some mild spots of dampstain affecting late leaves; contemporary speckled calf rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with floral tools, red morocco label, heraldic crest to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red, free endpapers lacking, corners and edges of boards repaired

Nissen BBI 1406; Hunt 1744; Heirs of Hippocrates 818.

Stock code 122626

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The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.

Historia Botanica Practica:

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