TENORE V. - PASQUALE GA: POPULAR BOTANICA ATLAS, FOUR VOLUMES

Vincenzo Tenore - Giuseppe Antonio Pasquale, Atlas of popular botany, illustration of remarkable plants of each family types. Naples, Raimondo Petraroja Editor, 1872-86. Four volumes in folio (mm 388x270) with 439 lithographic tavv.; 401 colored and designed by Polizzi, Di Lorenzo, Irolli, Longobardi and Amato, each with the Editor's stamp. Coeval binding in parchment, marbled effect paper, golden titles imprinted in red leather. vol.I Litography designed by Gennaro Amato, monographs 1-152 with numerous colored tavv. (Naples 1872-76), vol.II litography drawn by S.Longobardi, monographs 153-262 with numerous colored tavv.(Naples 1876-80), vol.III with a colored lithography drawn by A.Procopio, monographs 263-399, with numerous colored tavv. (Naples 1881-86), The Introduction, single volume with lithography drawn by A.Procopio and 38 tavv. in b.co and black outside text with explanation in front (Naples 1881-86), rare original edition of this atlas of botany considered one of the most beautiful of the nineteenth century.