Lot 132: FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655).Flora overo cultura di fiori. Rome: P.A. Facciotti, 1638.

FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655). Flora overo cultura di fiori. Rome: P.A. Facciotti, 1638. 4° (241 x 175 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 45 engraved plates illustrating plants, gardening, implements etc., after A.M. Variana, Pietro Cortona, Guido Reni and A Sacchi. (Some overall browning, a few stains, a few marginal tears.) Later flexible vellum (a few stains). Provenance: Pietro Hembrini di Gaude (early inscription on flyleaf); C.E. Rappaport (booksellers’ sticker on pastedown);The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Ferrari’s De florum cultura, using the same illustrations as the 1633 Latin edition. Cleveland Collection 194 (GC copy this copy); Nissen BBI 620; Pritzel 2877.