ALLIONI'S FAMOUS FLORA OF PIEDMONT FROM 1785.

ALLIONI, CAROLO. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. I-III (in 1). Augustae Taurinorum (Turin), excudebat Ioannes Michael Briolus, 1785.
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Folio (about 395x265 mm.). (8, last blank), I-XIX, (1 blank), 1-344; (4), 1-366, i-xxiv, (2, last blank); (4), I-XIV pp, plate I-LXXXXII. 1 engraved plate J. B. Stagnon after Molinari. 3 titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 92 engraved plates Petrus Peiroleri after Francis Peiroleri (all, some minor foxing).
Contemporary brown half calf, worn, mended in the joints, gilt spine in six compartments, mended at head and foot, minor foxing. Old library label on verso of title (Ex Bibl. Acad, Erlagensi) and C. F. Ph. von Martius (1794-1868, the famous explorer of the South American Flora).

Ref. Nissen: BBI 18; Sitwell: Great Flower Books (1990) p. 69; Pritzel 108*; Stafleu: TL-2 100 (has 2 plates more, probably wrong and taken from Auctuarium).

Carlo Allioni (1728-1804) Italian physician and professor of botany at the university of Turin. Also director of the Turin Botanical Garden.

Provenance: Bibliotheca Academia Erlangensis, Carl Friedrich Von Martius (1794-1868, the famous explorer of the South American Flora). Olle Wallin's (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall.His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.

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