Book ID: 86368
Allioni, Carlo
Flora pedemontana. 3 vols. 1785. (Reprint 2003, Rariora et Mirabilia,5). 92 figs. 92 col. plates. LVI, 710 p. 4to. - With new introductory matter by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Rosanna Caramiello, Giuliana Forneris. 2 col. pls. & XXXIX p. - Cloth (In box).
A magnificently produced reprinted edition including the plates in full colour. Considered one of the major authorities on botanical and medicinal science in the circle of 18th century local and European culture. The author gives birth to the application of new principlesof botanic nomenclature based on the Linnean model, being the first to accomplish a systematic renaming of Piedmont's flora and publishes the results in this treatise in 1785. Clarity, readability and the elegant page layout distinguish the plates, fruit of painstaking copies from life, making this on of the most important works published in the Age of Enlightenment.