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Giovanni Battista FERRARI

Flora, seu De Florum cultura lib. IV

Apud Johannem Janssonium, Amstelodami 1646, in-4 (17x23cm), (46p.) 522pp. (12p.), relié.

Flora, seu De Florum cultura lib. IV
Apud Johannem Janssonium, Amstelodami 1646, in-4 (17 x 23 cm), (46 p.) 522 pp (12 p.), relié
Second edition, after the extremely rare first edition was published in 1633 in Rome (Pritzel). It is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece featuring a portrait of the author on the verso, as well as 45 copper-engraved plates, included in the pagination, by Anna Maria Vaiani, Greuter and Mellan for the drawings of Guido Reni, Pietro Berrettini da Cortona and Andrea Sacco.
Contemporary full calf binding, spine in five richly decorated compartments, gilt roll-tooling on the spine ends, all edges speckled with red. Binding shows some signs of very skilful restoration.
A restored worm tunnel, without loss of content, on the last two leaves of the index, as well as on the last four blank leaves.
Bibliographer's note on the second blank endpaper, bibliophile Joseph Arnoult's handwritten ex-libris in ink on the title page.
Tuscan Jesuit professor of Hebrew language at the Roman College, Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655), remains best known for writing his botanical treatise, Flora, seu De florum cultura lib. IV. The volume contains admirable, finely engraved copper plates and captions that are mostly in elegant phylacteries. The work is divided into four parts: the first concerns garden layout, its architecture, gardeners, the earth and the tools. The second offers a description of the flowers and their different species from a botanical point of view. The third is devoted to the growing and fertilisation of these flowers and exposes different methods of pest control. The fourth and last section is about conservation techniques, drying and the art of bouquet arranging, bringing up different ways to increase perfume or even change the shape or color of the flowers.
A very beautiful copy of this important botanical work.

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