DOMENICO VANDELLI - DICTIONARY OF NATURAL AND BOTANICAL HISTORY (FIRST EDITION) - 1788

Subject: Old Portuguese book from the second half of the 18th century. Dictionary. Natural and botanical history. Flowers of Brazil and Portugal - Domenico Vandelli.

Publication: Coimbra, na Real Officina da Universidade, 1788. Conimbricae, Ex Typographia Academico Regia, 1788. First edition.

Physical description: Major octave (20 cm). 2 works bound in one volume. Work I (Dictionary of natural history): Frontis, cover, VI pages, 301 pages, 3 pages, XXXVI pages, 69 pages, which belong to the second work Florae lusitanicae et brasilensis specimen, 21 plates of animals, plants, insects, etc. Work II (Florae lusitanicae et brasilensis specimen): Cover, pages 73 to 96, 5 folded plates. Full vintage leather binding with ribs, stitching and gilding on the spine. Engravings on copper plates.

Conservation: Very good condition. Very clean paper with good margins. Light xylophage mark on the last leaves and plates in the inner white margin glued to the stitching without affecting the text or the plates. Completely reviewed.

Author's biography: Domenico Agostino Vandelli (1735, Padua - 1816, Lisbon) was an Italian naturalist. He completed his studies at the University of Padua and obtained his doctorate in medicine with the thesis Dissertationes tres: de Aponi thermis, de nonnullis insectis terrestribus et zoophytis marinis, et de vermium terrae reproductione atque taenia canis. In 1761, he sent Charles Linnaeus (1707-1778) a correspondence about the invertebrates Holothuroidea. Later, in 1767 he dedicated the genus Vandellia of the Scrophulariaceae family to him. In 1765, he taught chemistry and natural history at the University of Coimbra, where he founded a botanical garden. In 1788 he published this Dictionary of two technical terms of natural history extracted from the works of Linneo, with their explanation as well as a Florae lusitanicae et brasiliensis specimen (Coimbra). All of his work is under the authority of Linnaeus.

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