Flower gardens.- Clarici (Paolo Bartolomeo) Istoria e Coltura delle Piante, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved folding plan, contemporary half vellum, red morocco label to spine, [Pritzel 1728], 4to, Venice, presso Andrea Poletti, 1726.

⁂ One of the most important works on flower gardens and the cultivation of flowers in Northern Italy. Paolo Bartolomeo Clarici (1664-1725) "spent most of his life in the Veneto where his literary and scientific tastes brought him the friendship of many members of the great Venetian families. Prominent among these was Gerardo Sagredo, Procurator of St Mark's, for whom he laid out a splendid garden in the Venetian style for the family villa at Marocco... Clarici used a print of a bird's eye view of this Marocco garden in his book as an ideal example of layout... predominantly a flower garden." (Masson, Italian Gardens).