MICHELE TENORE (1780-1861). Flora Napolitana, ossia descrizione delle piante indigene del regno di Napoli, e delle pi rare specie di piante esotiche coltivate ne' giardini. Naples: Stamperia Reale, (vol. I), Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico (vol. II), Stamperia Francese (vols. III and IV) and Stamperia del Fibreno (vol. V), 1811-1838. 5 volumes, 2 (441 x 294mm). Titles, half-title to vol. I, introduction, indices to each part, 250 STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOUR AND FINISHED BY HAND. (Many plates shaved, 15 just touching image, the majority affecting engraver's imprint or plate number, a few with very light, mainly marginal spotting, titles and several text leaves slightly spotted.) Near-contemporary green morocco gilt, the covers with wide decorative border composed of rules and geometric rolls surrounding inner border of various small flower tools, including tulips and daisies within beaded roundels and foliate decoration, elaborate corner-pieces in the same style, the spine in seven compartments with raised bands, light-brown lettering pieces onlaid in two, the rest with floral and foliate decoration, turn-ins with floral and foliate roll, g.e., by John Wright (volume IV with tiny crack in lower section of front joint, volume V with very slight cracks to upper part of front and back joint). FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE ITALIAN REGIONAL FLORA. Although two or three incomplete copies have appeared at auction, the only other complete copy to have appeared in British auction records this century was offered in 1935 (Sotheby's, 2 April, lot 356). Stafleu records only three copies, one of which is incomplete and one of which is on microfiche. The work continued the studies of Neapolitan flora begun by Cirillo, Petagna and Caulini, and was produced under the patronage of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies "col pi splendido lusso tipografico" (vol. I, Introduzione , p. iv). It describes not only the indigenous plants of Naples, but also some of the rare exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens of which Tenore was director. Two separate appendices ( Appendix quarta and Appendix quinta , not present in this copy) were published in 1823 and 1826. The plates are mainly stipple-engravings, although, as is common with this method, occasionally other types of engraving are used on the same plate: for instance, several of the dotted lines are produced using a roulette wheel. As is the case with other Italian stipple-engraved works of this date, the hand-colouring is often so opaque as to almost completely obscure the engraved base. The plates are by Carlo and Raffaele Biondi, Carlo Cataneo, Clener, Raf. Estevan, Filippo Imperato, Nic. Morghen, Ant. Pinto, Nicco Ricci, Vin. Scarpati and Luigi Vocaturo after Federigo Denhardt, Gius. Lettieri and Steurnal. Nissen BBI 1939; Stafleu and Cowan 13.901; Great Flower Books p. 77; BMC NH p. 2084; Pritzel 9142.
MICHELE TENORE (1780-1861). Flora Napolitana, ossia descrizione delle piante indigene del regno di Napoli, e delle pi rare specie di piante esotiche coltivate ne' giardini. Naples: Stamperia Reale, (vol. I), Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico (vol. II), Stamperia Francese (vols. III and IV) and Stamperia del Fibreno (vol. V), 1811-1838. 5 volumes, 2 (441 x 294mm). Titles, half-title to vol. I, introduction, indices to each part, 250 STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOUR AND FINISHED BY HAND. (Many plates shaved, 15 just touching image, the majority affecting engraver's imprint or plate number, a few with very light, mainly marginal spotting, titles and several text leaves slightly spotted.) Near-contemporary green morocco gilt, the covers with wide decorative border composed of rules and geometric rolls surrounding inner border of various small flower tools, including tulips and daisies within beaded roundels and foliate decoration, elaborate corner-pieces in the same style, the spine in seven compartments with raised bands, light-brown lettering pieces onlaid in two, the rest with floral and foliate decoration, turn-ins with floral and foliate roll, g.e., by John Wright (volume IV with tiny crack in lower section of front joint, volume V with very slight cracks to upper part of front and back joint). FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE ITALIAN REGIONAL FLORA. Although two or three incomplete copies have appeared at auction, the only other complete copy to have appeared in British auction records this century was offered in 1935 (Sotheby's, 2 April, lot 356). Stafleu records only three copies, one of which is incomplete and one of which is on microfiche. The work continued the studies of Neapolitan flora begun by Cirillo, Petagna and Caulini, and was produced under the patronage of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies "col pi splendido lusso tipografico" (vol. I, Introduzione , p. iv). It describes not only the indigenous plants of Naples, but also some of the rare exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens of which Tenore was director. Two separate appendices ( Appendix quarta and Appendix quinta , not present in this copy) were published in 1823 and 1826. The plates are mainly stipple-engravings, although, as is common with this method, occasionally other types of engraving are used on the same plate: for instance, several of the dotted lines are produced using a roulette wheel. As is the case with other Italian stipple-engraved works of this date, the hand-colouring is often so opaque as to almost completely obscure the engraved base. The plates are by Carlo and Raffaele Biondi, Carlo Cataneo, Clener, Raf. Estevan, Filippo Imperato, Nic. Morghen, Ant. Pinto, Nicco Ricci, Vin. Scarpati and Luigi Vocaturo after Federigo Denhardt, Gius. Lettieri and Steurnal. Nissen BBI 1939; Stafleu and Cowan 13.901; Great Flower Books p. 77; BMC NH p. 2084; Pritzel 9142.
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