Flora Romana D. Joannis Francisci Maratti: Opus Postumum Nunc Primum in Lucem Editum (2 volumes)

Giovanni Francesco Maratti; Maurizio Benedetto Olivieri.

Rome: Joseph Salviucci, 1822

2 volumes. Original wrappers, 23 cm. XXX, 416; 544 p. Generally clean, with crisp pages. A little spotting to the title. Stafleu and Cowen 5374.   Giovanni Francesco Maratti (1723 - 1777) was an expert in Roman flora and directed the botanical center of Rome. Maratti is notable for discovering and identifying a number of previously unknown plant species. Maurizio Benedetto Olivieri published Maratti's treatise posthumously.   Olivieri had accidentally come into possession of the manuscript draft bought by a bookseller, which had not been printed before the botanist's death. Olivieri fused Maratti's treatises on the native flora of Lazio and with the flora of the botanical garden.  The description of the plants is based on the systems of Rivinus (A. Bachmann), of GP Tournefort and of C. Linnaeus.    Botany -- Italy.    This book was sold in the 5 June 1997 Christie's Sale 8009, Lot 435.  Ref: Stafleu & Cowan TL2 5374.