Sale 2464 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 5, 2017

306  ​c  ​ ALDINI, TOBIAS and CASTELLI, PIETRO. Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam Plantarum, Que Continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano. 22 engraved plates, woodcut text illustrations, engraved title, [xii], 100, [8] pages. Small folio, 11 1 / 2 x8 1 / 2 inches, ninteteenth-century brown cloth, lightly rubbed; small reinstatement to upper margin of title, mild foxing throughout. Rome, 1625 [800/1,200] 307 307  ​c  ​ (ARMENIAN.) Alishan, Ghevont. Sisouan. Lithographed folding map, profusion of plates and text illustrations, 592 pages entirely in the Armenian alphabet. Small folio, 12 1 / 2 x9 inches, contemporary half red morocco, rubbed; scattered foxing, map with a closed split at lower fold. Venice: St. Lazarus, 1885 [600/900] Alishan was a nineteenth-century historian and priest of the Mekhitarist order at the monastery of San Lazzaro, Venice, long a center of Armenian culture, study and publishing. This is his classic compendium relating the history and geography of Armenian Cilicia (11th-14th centuries) culled from the vast ancient source materials available to him at the monastery. 306