Allioni,Carlo ; Giovanni Battista Stagnon; Giovanni Domenico Molinari; Pietro Peiroleri ( Peyrolery); Francesco Peyrolery; Victor-Amédée, Giammichele Briolo,

Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii auctore Carolo Allionio,... Tomus primus [-tertius]. 3 vols. First edition.

[Turin, Italy]: Augustae Taurinorum Excudebat Joannes Michael Briolus R. Scientiarum Academiae Impressor et Bibliopola, 1785. 3 folio volumes, 26.5 x 40.25 cm., later brown half-shagreen with matching corners...
Vol. 1: [8], XIX, [1], 344 p., [1] c. di tav. : ritr. calcogr.; Segn.: [pi]² [chi]² *² *1-*4² A-4R²
Vol. 2: [4], 366, xxiv, [2] p.; Segn.: [pi]²a-d² A-5F²
Vol. 3: Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae auctore Carolo Allionio; [4], XIV, [2] p., LXXXXII c. di tav. : ill. calcogr.; Segn.: [pi]²a-d² (carta d2 bianca)....
A portrait of Victor Amédée III, King of Sardinia, to whom the book is dedicated, in vol.1 vignette on the titles and 92 plates engraved by Pietro Peiroleri after Francesco Peyrolery in vol. 3.....Provenance: Rubber stamp ex libris on the verso of some pages and all the plates: Bibliotheca Societatis medicae edinensis = Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.... "Over the course of three sales at Sotheby’s in London in 1969, the library of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh was dispersed. The Society was founded in 1734 and had built up substantial holdings of important medical and scientific texts. By the mid 1960s, faced with inadequate facilities and changes in the focus of the organization, the decision was made to relinquish the library at auction.....

The librarian of the Middleton Health Sciences Library at the time was Helen Crawford, who undertook the task of obtaining as many relevant titles as possible after being contacted by Anthony Rota of the Bertram Rota booksellers firm in London. Due to the amount and complexity of the offerings, she traveled to London to personally attend the sales. Crawford’s efforts in preparing for the auction in Wisconsin, then participating in it in London allowed the University of Wisconsin to successfully acquire a substantial portion of the books offered. She wrote an engaging account of her experiences for the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association in 1970, describing the sale as “a protracted courtship of a lot of books, with all the conventional elements of suspense, competition, pursuit over great distances, and, finally, conquest.”.....Pritzel, 108. Nissen,BBI 18. Manno, I, 5233. Brunet, I, 190-191. Graesse, I, 81. Sacheverell Sitwell e Wilfrid Blunt, Grandi libri di fiori, p. 69. Dunthorne, 6. Stafleu, 100. Cfr. Mario Gliozzi in D.B.I., II, 1960; Dunthorne 6; Great Flower Books p. 47. ...OCLC Number: 493234736:&
883621259.....
Front. stampati in rosso e nero
Vignetta calcogr. sui front.; ritratto di Vittorio Amedeo III re di Sardegna inciso da Giovanni Battista Stagnon tra i fascicoli [pi]²e [chi]² del volume 1; tavole disegnate ed incise da Pietro e Francesco Peyrolery
Tit. degli occhietti: Caroli Allioni Flora Pedemontana tomus primus [-tertius]
Faux-titre : "Caroli Allionii Flora Pedemontana. Tomus primus [-tertius]"
Titre du tome III : "Florae pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae"
Épître dédicatoire adressée au roi de Sardaigne Victor Amédée III par Carlo Allioni
Vignette aux titres gravée sur cuivre
Titres en rouge et noir
En frontispice du tome I, portrait de Victor Amédée III gravé sur cuivre par Giovanni Battista Stagnon d'après la peinture de Giovanni Domenico Molinari. Les 92 planches du tome 3 sont gravées sur cuivre par Pietro Peiroleri d'après les dessins de son père Francesco Peyrolery
Sig. [ ](4), *(2), *1-*4(2) A-Rrrr(2) ; [ ](2), A-Fffff(2) ; [ ](2), a-d(2). Item #51-5142

Price: $4,500.00