Nice copy on large paper METASTASIO (Peter) Opere... - Lot 716 - Briscadieu

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Nice copy on large paper METASTASIO (Peter) Opere... - Lot 716 - Briscadieu
Nice copy on large paper METASTASIO (Peter) Opere del signor Abate Pietro Metastasio. Parigi, Hérissant, 1780-82. 12 volumes in-4; illustrated with a portrait by Steiner and 37 beautiful plates engraved by and after Steiner, Martini, J. M. Moreau, le jeune, G.B. Cipriani and Cochin. Copy on large laid paper, with full margins. Bound in contemporary Italian vellum, smooth spine decorated, blue title and edition, black endpapers, fine gilt garland on the boards, gilt edges. A very good copy. Edition dedicated to Queen Marie-Antoinette, the most beautiful and complete that had appeared so far of this once famous poet (Brunet III, 1676). Illustrations announced of great beauty by Cohen (706). Provenance: Printed bookplate of Francesco Rizzo Patarol (Naples). This family was the owner of the Rizzo Patarol palace in Venice, which was at one time the seat of the Savoy embassy, then of the French embassy. Lorenzo Patarol was the first, at the beginning of the 18th century, to take the decision to establish a botanical garden in this remote place, then planted with vegetable gardens. A man of great culture and a notorious collector, author of a Herbarium preserved in the Correr Museum, he divided the area into plots according to the classification of the French botanist Tournefort. Francesco Rizzo Patarol, his nephew, was keen to continue this scientific mission. He organized the garden according to Linnaeus' system, enriching it to such an extent that there were "about six hundred species of trees and shrubs growing in the open air, almost all of them exotic, recent and rare, and about one hundred and eighty varieties of the most exquisite roses. The place was so prized and original that in 1815 it was visited by Emperor Francis I of Austria. They had a very fine library of beautiful books, most of them in bindings identical to this copy.
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