Della natura, e coltura de' fiori fisicamente esposta : trattati due

By

Arena, Filippo, 1708-1789 , author, engraver

Felicella, Angelo, , printer, bookseller
Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm, 1683-1741 , Phytanthoza iconographia
Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655 , De florum cultura
Cammareri, Mario, , engraver

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

In Palermo, Appresso Angelo Felicella, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Notes

Flilippo Arena published under the name of his nephew, the abbot Ignazio Arena.

Engraved title vignette in v.1; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Pagination, volume 1: VIII, 440 pages; volume 2: VIII, 167, [1] pages (final page blank).

The third volume comprises 65 double-page engraved plates. The first plate is a frontispiece with motto "Flora cuique suoi fruttus ex floribus offert", signed below "Philippus Arena adjuvante P. Mario Cammareri hanc et sequentes tab. fec."

Signatures, tomo 1: pi⁴ A-3I⁴; tomo 2: pi⁴ A-X⁴.

Some of the flower images are derived from Weinmann's Phytanthoza iconographia (1737-45), others are from Ferrari's De florum cultura (1633).

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), | 48

Tongiorgi, T. L. An Oak Spring flora, | 38

Subjects

18th century , Botany , Early works to 1800 , Engravings (prints) , Floriculture , Flower gardening , Flowers , Italy , Pre-Linnean works

Language

Undetermined

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.167531
OCLC: 556682949