CASSONE, Felice (1815-1854). Flora medico-farmaceutica. Turi...
CASSONE, Felice (1815-1854). Flora medico-farmaceutica. Turin: Giuseppe Cassone, 1847-1852.
First edition of one of the most important Italian medico-pharmaceutical floras of the nineteenth century, illustrated with 600 chromolithographic plates finished by hand. The result of an ambitious publishing project developed over a period of five years, the work describes hundreds of plant species, providing their botanical classification, active principles, medicinal uses and pharmaceutical applications, and constitutes one of the most comprehensive Italian repertories of pharmaceutical botany of the nineteenth century.
6 vols., 8vo (230 × 148 mm). Each volume illustrated with 100 hand-coloured lithographic plates, for a total of 598 plates (of 600; lacking plates 156 and 165; plate 500 bound after plate 560); text leaves uncut (foxing). Contemporary half vellum, spines with gilt titles and decoration on labels. (6)
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CASSONE, Felice (1815-1854). Flora medico-farmaceutica. Turin: Giuseppe Cassone, 1847-1852.
First edition of one of the most important Italian medico-pharmaceutical floras of the nineteenth century, illustrated with 600 chromolithographic plates finished by hand. The result of an ambitious publishing project developed over a period of five years, the work describes hundreds of plant species, providing their botanical classification, active principles, medicinal uses and pharmaceutical applications, and constitutes one of the most comprehensive Italian repertories of pharmaceutical botany of the nineteenth century.
6 vols., 8vo (230 × 148 mm). Each volume illustrated with 100 hand-coloured lithographic plates, for a total of 598 plates (of 600; lacking plates 156 and 165; plate 500 bound after plate 560); text leaves uncut (foxing). Contemporary half vellum, spines with gilt titles and decoration on labels. (6)
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