Io. Bapt. Ferrarii Senesis e Sociatate Iesu De florum cultura libri IV.
Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655)
Category
Books
Date
1633
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007353
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 522, [18] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 4to. Running number: 5810. First five leaves are mounted on stubs. Leaf pi1 mis-bound at end. Wanting final blank leaf Ll8. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "E. [or F] de Montmollin 1706" [possibly Emer de Montmollin (1664-1714), Chancellor of the principality of Neuchâtel under King Frederick I of Prussia]. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled sheepskin, rubbed and with worm damage; gilt double fillet border. Rebacked in mottled sheepskin; gilt title and fillets on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655) Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), artist Johann Friedrich Greuter (1590-1662), engraver (printmaker) Claude Mellan (Abbeville 1598 – Paris 1688), engraver (printmaker) Andrea Sacchi (Rome 1599 – Rome 1661), artist and engraver Anna Maria Vaiani, artist and engraver