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Author: Cambiagi, Gaetano
Title: Descrizione dell'imperiale giardino di Boboli.
Publication: Firenze, Stamperia Imperiale 1757.
Price: £695
Reference: 11495
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8vo. xvi + 80pp, engraved title-page vignette, 4 typographic reproductions of inscriptions in text. Contemporary full vellum. Printed book label of March(ese) Priore Manfredi Malaspina (a Tuscan landowner who died in 1786).
Scarce first edition of this excellent guide book to the Boboli garden in Florence, explaining its history, describing its layout and identifying the designers and craftsmen responsible for the statues, fountains and grotto within the garden complex. The book's author, Gaetano Cambiagi, was Keeper of the Magliabecchi and Marucelli libraries in Florence, and thus particularly well-informed on the past history of the city.