Della natura, e coltura de' fiori fisicamente esposta
Subtitle: trattati due
By: del sac. Ignazio Arena da Piazza, dottore in sacra teologia, e canonico dell'insigne collegiata nella sua patria
Contributors: Felicella, Angelo, printer, bookseller; Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm, 1683-1741; Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655; Cammareri, Mario, engraver
Published: 1768
Language: und
Subjects: Botany; Early works to 1800; Flower gardening; Pre-Linnean works; Flowers; Floriculture
Notes: Flilippo Arena published under the name of his nephew, the abbot Ignazio Arena.

Engraved title vignette in v.1; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Pagination, volume 1: VIII, 440 pages; volume 2: VIII, 167, [1] pages (final page blank).

The third volume comprises 65 double-page engraved plates. The first plate is a frontispiece with motto "Flora cuique suoi fruttus ex floribus offert", signed below "Philippus Arena adjuvante P. Mario Cammareri hanc et sequentes tab. fec."

Signatures, tomo 1: pi⁴ A-3I⁴; tomo 2: pi⁴ A-X⁴.

Some of the flower images are derived from  Weinmann's Phytanthoza iconographia (1737-45), others are from Ferrari's De florum cultura (1633).

Nissen, C.  Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 48

Tongiorgi, T. L.  An Oak Spring flora, 38