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Two small, stitched paper volumes of dried flowers and leaves collected 1859-1864 on a Tour of Italy and Switzerland
by Italian Flower Collection
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About This Item
Two parts. 8vo. 210 x 130 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches]. One of the parts has 22 pages of specimens , the other 6 pages. All are captioned and dated, and the series concludes with "Palm blessed by the Pope, Palm Sunday 1864. In good condition, a remarkable survival in the original paper wrappers.
A delicate collection of botanical specimens preserved on coated paper, from a trip that included stops at Cicero's villa in Tusculum, Pozzuoli, Lake Agnano outside Naples, leaves from the tomb of Virgil near Naples, Amalfi, the Villa Reale in Naples, Fiesole, Monte Cavo, Galileo's Tower, Hadrian's Villa and Rome. Very beautifully done.
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- Title
- Two small, stitched paper volumes of dried flowers and leaves collected 1859-1864 on a Tour of Italy and Switzerland
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- Italian Flower Collection
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- Used
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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