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Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Turin, Giammichele Briolo, 1785. In 2nd (395 x 260 mm);[8], XIX, [1], 344; [4], 366, XXIV, [2]; [4], XIV, [2] pages. Intaglio vignette designed by Luigi Piantino and engraved by Giacomo Mercoli on the title pages printed in red and black, portrait of the author in the first volume, 92 engraved plates outside the text (tear to the title page of the first volume.) Coeval half-leather binding (different that of the volume of plates). Bibliographic card of the antiquarian bookstore Mediolanum, Milan. First edition of this well-known and important work on the botanical literature of Piedmont. The treatise is still considered one of the most important floristic works inEuropeand the most important inPiedmont. It describesthe medicinal virtues of 2831 species of plants from the Piedmont region, including 237 new species. (3)
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Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Turin, Giammichele Briolo, 1785. In 2nd (395 x 260 mm);[8], XIX, [1], 344; [4], 366, XXIV, [2]; [4], XIV, [2] pages. Intaglio vignette designed by Luigi Piantino and engraved by Giacomo Mercoli on the title pages printed in red and black, portrait of the author in the first volume, 92 engraved plates outside the text (tear to the title page of the first volume.) Coeval half-leather binding (different that of the volume of plates). Bibliographic card of the antiquarian bookstore Mediolanum, Milan. First edition of this well-known and important work on the botanical literature of Piedmont. The treatise is still considered one of the most important floristic works inEuropeand the most important inPiedmont. It describesthe medicinal virtues of 2831 species of plants from the Piedmont region, including 237 new species. (3)
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