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<dl><dd>[20], 410, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : 14 cm. (12mo)</dd>
<dd>Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription</dd>
<dd>Translation, by the editor Wolf Albrecht Stromer von Reichenbach, of the author's: Manuale de' giardinieri diuiso in ẗr libri, first printed in Macerata, 1649</dd>
<dd>Includes numerous accounts of American flowers and plants: with four types of daffodils, Peruvian hyacinth, a lily, hibiscus and "Das indianische Tubero" (sweet potato) or "Indianische Erdapfel" (potato; p. 320-23). In addition other American plates included are the "Indianischen Lorbeer-baum aus America" (American Laurel; p. 214-15); "Indischen Molla ... Peruvianische Masticbaum" (rubber tree: p. 220-22); "Gelsemin aus America" (Gelsemium: p. 250-53); "Americanischen Trachelio oder Cardinals Blumen" (p. 274-76), and there. Regarding the four types of daffodils (Narcissen) the text also mentions a Virginische Narcissen from the island of Virginia (Virginian daffodils?: p. 95); this appears misnamed since the Amaryllidaceae family, of which the narcissus are a member, aren't native to the Americas. The "Hyacinthus Peruvianus" plate cilla peruviana, the Portuguese squill, is a species of Scilla native to the western Mediterranean region in Iberia, Italy, and northwest Africa. Although the epithet peruviana means "from Peru", it is strictly a western Mediterranean species. Linnaeus named the species in 1753, noting an earlier name given to the plant by Carolus Clusius, Hyacinthus stellatus peruanus. It is said that Clusius misunderstood a statement that the bulbs came from a ship called "Peru" and thought that they came from the country</dd>
<dd>Signatures: ):(¹⁰ A-R¹² S² (S2 blank)</dd>
<dd>Title page printed in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>"Send-schreiben des autoris", p. [2-12], is dated and signed: Datum 10. Decembris 1678. W.A.S.V.R. [i.e. Wolfgang Albrecht Stromer von Reichenbach, according to the VD17]</dd>
<dd>Purchase; 17-140</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Flower gardening; Gardening; Imprint 1679</div>
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Mandirola, Agostino</div>
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