MBA002: Lot 3. GALLESIO, Giorgio.

Known as the finest Italian work on fruits, and described by Dunthorne as ‘a very fine work’, the Pomona Italiana engaged around twenty artists and a further twenty engravers in its production by the retired, and somewhat disenchanted civil servant, Giorgio Gallesio, who took refuge in his passion for botany. He had already produced a work on citrus fruits, hence their absence from this title.

Description

vol 1, Peaches and Pears, preliminary text and tables, with 43 richly colour-printed stipple-engravings, finished by hand and heightened with gum-arabic, tissue guards, some light spotting throughout, mostly marginal, contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, vellum-tipped corners, edges worn, bookplate of Conte Filiberto Avogadro di Coloberto on the front marbled pastedown, folio,

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