Lot 151: COLONNA, FABIO.

FUTOBASANOV SIVE PLANTARUM ALIQUOT HISTORIA IN QUA DESCRIBUNTUR DIVERSI GENERIS PLANTAE VERIORES... ACCESSIT ETIAM PISCIUM ALIQUOT, PLANTARUMQUE NOVARUM HISTORIA EODEM AUCTORE. .NAPLES: ORAZIO SALVIANI, FOR GIOVANNI GIACOMO CARLINO AND ANTONIO PACE, 1592.
First edition, 4to (200 x 141mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, full-page engraved illustrations, nineteenth-century green morocco-backed boards, [Censimento 16 CNCE 12822; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 130; Nissen BBI 386; Wellcome I, 1540], [paraph]3 torn and repaired (affecting a few letters), some other paper repairs (affecting text)

The engravings, among the earliest found for the illustration of plants, are thought to have been drawn and engraved by Colonna himself. He was one of the founding members of the Accademia dei Lincei.