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BOBOLI GARDENS

BOBOLI GARDENS

Descrizione dell'imperiale giardino di Boboli By Gaetano Cambiagi.  xvi, 80 pp.  Engraved title vignette, woodcut head-and-tail pieces and initials.  Small 8vo., bound in contemporary Italian ‘plaid’ patterned wrappers.  Florence: Nella Stamperia Imperiale, 1757.

 

First Edition.  A fine copy of this rare eighteenth century guide to Boboli Gardens, here preserved in attractive contemporary patterned wrappers.  With some early (contemporaneous?)  manuscript notes on the verso of the front wrapper.  OCLC finds just one copy in the United States at the Charleston Library Society.   Spine with some small neat repairs. 

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