Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quatuor / Jo: Baptistae Ferrarii Senensis e Societate Jesv.

Romae : [V. Mascardus sumptibus H. Scheus], 1646.

12 unnumbered pages, 480 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves including extra eng. title and 101 plates : engr. frontispiece, illustrations ; (folio)

Mansell 170:391

BM 72:418

Hunt Botanical Catalogue 243

Pritzel 2878

Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration 621

Sommervogel v. 3, col. 678, no. 9

Brunet v. 2, p. 1231

First ed.; Graesse, v. 2, p. 571, cites a 4to ed. of 1633 not in any other authority, perhaps confused with work on flowers

Signatures: +⁶ A-Zz⁴ AAa-BBb⁴ Ccc-Qqq⁴

Plates engraved by Blomaert and others, include allegorical scenes; Ff3, p. 229-230, printed with plate on both sides