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3 vols, Hardback, 1328 p., 220 x 285 mm, Illustrations:869 col. *NEW . ISBN 9781905375783. This three-volume catalogue presents five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical drawings, now in the library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in the 1620s to further the researches of the scientific society he had founded in Rome, the Accademia dei Lincei, of which Cassiano dal Pozzo was a member. The manuscripts were acquired by Cassiano in 1633 following Cesi?s death, together with three companion manuscripts dedicated to drawings of fungi (published in Part B.II of the catalogue raisonné). Many of the drawings depict plants such as ferns, bryophytes, mosses and liverworts, which had been considered ?imperfect? because (like fungi) they seemed to lack reproductive structures ? flowers, fruit or seeds. In 1624 Galileo gave his fellow academicians a microscope, and with this novel ?aid to the eyes?, wrote another Linceo, ?our Prince Cesi saw to it that many plants hitherto believed by botanists to be lacking in seeds were drawn on paper? Indeed, these drawings constitute some of the earliest microscopic studies in the history of science. One manuscript is dedicated to illustrations of seaweeds and is the first known sustained study of this subject, while another is a miscellaneous volume that includes 30 prints as well as drawings of fungi and lichen, insects, a bat, a hermaphrodite rat and other curiosities. Introductory essays discuss the importance of these drawings to Cesi?s researches and how the manuscripts made their way into the collections of the Institut de France, their botanical content and place in the history of botanical illustration. All drawings are reproduced as full-plate colour illustrations and accompanied by botanical identifications and commentary. 0 g.…

dj. First Edition. First Printings. Three quarto volumes (28.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; dustjackets; [viii],240; [viii],241-538; [viii],539-1297pp; illus. Upper right board corners gently bumped on all three volumes, else clean and Near Fine in Near Fine dustjackets, some some trivial wear to extremities and corresponding wrinkling at upper right corners. Three-volume catalog presenting "five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical drawings, now in teh library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in the 1620's to further the researches of the scientific society he had founded in Rome, the Accademia dei Lincei, of which Cassiano dal Pozzo was a member. The manuscripts were acquired by Cassiano in 1633 following Cesi's death, together with three companion manuscripts dedicated to drawings of fungi" (from front flap).…