[Rarebooks] FS: Silva's expanded work on landscape gardening w/40 fine plates. Milan: 1813

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(HORTICULTURE) [Silva, Ercole]. DELL'ARTE DE' GIARDINI INGLESI. Seconda Edizione, Ricorretta ed Accresciuta dall'Autore e Coll'Agguinta di Nuove Tavole Incise in Rame. Milan: Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi. 1813. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1. (16),218,(2);(4)215,(7)pp. Both volumes with the half titles, and both with a final leaf of errata. Illustrated with 40 inserted plates, including many folding, of English garden designs. Orig. paste-paper boards, untrimmed. Red paper spine label (chipped), and hinges rubbed. Perfectly sound and very clean.    $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The "best edition", with a greatly expanded text from the first edition of 1801, and new plates. The 1801 edition had 6 plates, and 30 half-page text engravings. Cicognara 960; Berlin Kat 3498.

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