TRIONFETTI Giovanni Battista Observationes de ortu, ac vegetatione plantarum cum novarum stirpium historia iconibus illustrata…

Pritzel, 9522 ; Nissen, BBI, 2003 ; Hunt, 373 ; Wellcome describes another edition from 1699, possibly an reissue of the 1685 edition with a new title ; not in NLM.

First edition of the main work of the botanist Giovanni Battista Trionfetti (1658-1708) who redesigned the botanical garden in Rome.

Trionfetti was teaching at the celebrated university Sapienza. Due to the work in the gardens of pope Clement XI it soon became the most celebrated botanical garden in Europe.

According to Hoefer, the botanical garden in Rome “devint l’un des plus célèbres de l’Europe, par le nombre des plantes, tant indigènes qu’exotiques, qu’il parvint à y réunir.”

The 13 large etched plates depict: ferns, moss, verbena, violet, lunaria, alpine fleabane, thistles, and others.

Very good copy, some occasional underlining in ink.