TY - BOOK AU - Castelli,Pietro AU - Ciamberlano,Luca TI - Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, quae continentur Romae in Horto Farnesiano PY - 1625/// CY - Romae PB - Typis Iacobi Mascardi KW - Gardens KW - Italy KW - Rome KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Botanical gardens KW - Botanical illustration N1 - Dedication: "Illustr.mi et rev.mi Principis et Cardinalis Odoardi Farnesii medico chimico, et eiusdem Horti praefecto."; The printer's preface indicates that the author chose to publish the work under the name of another, and the laudatory poem (p. [5-6]) apparently divulges the author's name as Petrus Castellus. Castelli is considered the author by most authorities (cf. BL Italian, 17th century); Engraved t.p. within architectural border signed: L.C.F. (Luca Ciamberlano); full-page engraved ill. and occasional woodcut diagrams; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials; Signatures: [maltese cross]⁶ A-B⁶ C-L⁴ M⁶; Page 27 misnumbered 37 and page 30 misnumbered 40; page 101 not numbered; "Errata Typographica"--p. 99-109 [i.e. 101]; Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum; 26; Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt; 208; Rossetti, S. Rome, a bibliography from the invention of printing through 1899; 1713 UR - https://archive.org/details/exactissimadescr00aldi ER -