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Hill.Decade di Alberi Curiosi ed Elegante Piante

Hill (Sir John) Decade di Alberi Curiosi ed Elegante Piante delle Indie Orientali, e dell'America...,

title with woodcut device, 10 hand-coloured engraved plates by Bianchi after P.Maioli, marginal staining, some light spotting, contemporary boards covered in two paste-paper designs (leafy border around central panel of geometric shapes), rather worn, lacking backstrip, 4to, Rome, Stamperia Salomoni, 1786.

***Translation of Hill's Decade of curious elegant trees and plants, published, in folio, in 1773. This edition is not so grand but still rather charming..