Botanical journey

Diario dell'ultimo viaggio bottanico fatto ... nell'Autunno del 1736. Per lo Stato Veneto. Author's holograph MS. The diary, which is apparently unpublished, is mainly a record of plants seen on a journey in Italy from 4 September 1736 to 23 November of the same year. The start was made in the direction of Bologna from Florence, and the last entry is located at Fucina. The work is unfinished.

1736

1 volume 130 ll. folio. 30 × 21 cm. Contemporary half-vellum binding.

Purchased at Sotheby's 24/4/1911, Lot 118.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Phillipps MS. 15772.