Deluxe Manuscript Fair Copy On Paper Prepared For Emperor Francis I Title Leaves On Vellum

by Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti

$125,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Florence: ca. 1763 . This handsome manuscript, prepared for presentation to Emperor Francis I 1708-65 , Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, is a beautifully written contemporary fair copy of the original holograph manuscript now in the Museo Galileo formerly the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence , compiled by Targioni-Tozzetti 1712-83 , the great natural historian, librarian, director of Florence’s botanical garden,

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