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Lot 242
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694). Opera Posthuma… Supplementa Necessaria, & Praefationem Additit, Innumerisque in Locis Emendavit Petrus Regis… Editio Ultima. Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1698.
4to (232 x 184 mm). Title printed in red and black, 20 engraved plates (19 folding). (Browned, some wormholing, a few leaves with tears some repaired, D[4] trimmed not affecting text, plates browned and brittle with several folding plate detached nearly along fold, split between Q[4] and R[1].) Contemporary vellum, edges sprinkled red, yapp edges (some soiling, some light wear, some minor wormholing). Provenance: Ex libris (unidentified stamp). FIRST EDITION. Wellcome IV, p. 38.
[With:] TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Rei Herbariae Studiosis. --Corollarium Institutionum Rei Herbariae. --Tabulae Generum Recens Institutorum in hoc Corollario. Paris: E Typographa Regia, [1700]-1703. Volume I only, 4to (238 x 175 mm). 13 engraved plates. (Lacking title-page, Some occasional minor spotting.) Original vellum blind-stamped, spine manuscript lettered in brown ink (some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Corollarium Institutionum Rei Herbariae is separately paginated, signed and has colophon dated 1703. Wellcome V, p. 289.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil


