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de Bry J. Th. & Ferrari G.B. Florilegium renovatum
One of the most beautiful German florilegia.
de Bry J. Th. & Ferrari G.B. Florilegium renovatum et auctum: Das ist: Vernewertes und vermehrtes Blumenbuch: Von mancherley Gewächsen, Blumen und Pflantzen welche uns deren Schönheit lieblicher Geruch Gebrauch und manigfaltiger Unterschied angenehme machet die nicht allein auss der von uns bekandter sondern auch den alten unbekandter Welt Fruchtbarer Schoss uns herfür gegeben werden. ... Frankfurt am Main, M. Merian, 1641. Folio, contemporary vellum, some rubbing at lower spine. 14pp including engraved title and 174 plates (5 folding), a few leaves browned, two pages with repaired lower corner not affecting the image. Nice copy of this very rare botanical book.
Item number: 13720
Price: €18000 ($23220 / £15300)
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Fuchs L. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Basel, 1542.
A masterpiece of Renaissance botany and the most celebrated and beautiful herbal ever printed.
Fuchs L. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Basel, M. Isingrin, 1542. Folio, 464 leaves, pp. [xxviii], 896, [4]. (39 x 25 cm). First edition. Original calf over wooden boards, blind tooled, lacking clasps, rebacked, worm trace in the first pages, later endpapers. Full-length portrait of Fuchs and 512 full-page woodcuts of plants in text.
Item number: 21439
Hermann P. Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus ...
List of the plants in the botanical garden of the Leyden University.
Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones.
Leiden, C. Boutesteyn, 1687. 8vo (190 x110 mm), contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispice and 106 engraved illustrations, one pasted-in plate on page 698. 10p, 700pp. Some annotations in ink. Nice copy of the first edition.
Item number: 13702
Price: €2600 ($3354 / £2210)
Merian M.S.
"One of the finest of all flower books" (Handasyde Buchanan)
Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. ... - Dissertation sur la Generation et les Transformations des Insectes de Surinam: Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des Plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnees, & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin. On y a joint Un Traité des changemens des Poissons en Grenouilles & des Grenouilles en poissons. Par Marie Sibille Merian. Den Haag, Pierre Gosse, 1726. Latin and French in double columns. 72 plates, engraved by Mulder and Sluyter. A few small wormholes at the end affecting 8 pages.
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Histoire des insectes de l'Europe, Dessinée d'après nature & expliquée par Marie Sibille Merian: Où l'on traite de la Generation & des différentes Metamorphoses des Chenilles, Vers, Papillons, Mouches & autres Insectes; & des Plantes, des Fleurs & des Fruits dont ils se nourrissent, Traduite du Hollandois en François Par Jean Marret, Docteur en Medecine. Augmentée par le même d'une Description exacte des Plantes, dont il est parlé dans cette histoire; & des Explications de dix-huit nouvelles Planches, dessinées par la même Dame, & qui n'ont point encore paru. Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1730. 184 plates on 47 sheets + 2 engraved vignettes. Four plates with some brown offsetting, wide margins.
Folio, (52 x 36 cm) Two works in 2 volumes in contemporary uniform calf bindings, gilt three-line borders, spine richly gilt with seven raised bands.
Item number: 01375
Munting A., Phytographia Curiosa, ...
"A weird and fascinating book" (Hunt)
Munting A. Phytographia Curiosa, exhibens arborum, fructium, herbarum & florum Icones... Collegit & adjecit Franciscus Kiggelaer. Amsterdam, Rodericus & Gerhardus Wetsten, 1713. Folio (40 x 25 cm). Half-title, printed title-page, allegorical frontispiece, contemporary half-vellum. Second latin edition. Engraved frontispiece + 245 engravings of plants, usually with scenes on a smaller scale below.
Item number: 21590
Piso G. De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica, ... Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1658.
*** A pioneer work on tropical medicine ***
PISO G. De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica, libri quatuordecim. Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1658. 11p, 329pp, 2p, 39pp, 226pp, 1p.
Second edition, revised and enlarged, folio (346 x 214mm.), engraved title, approx. 650 woodcuts in the text, contemporary vellum.
Item number: 21499
Sweert E. Florilegium. Francofurti, Anthonium Kempner, 1612.
*** The first edition of Sweert's famous "Florilegium" ***
SWEERT Emmanuel. (1552-1612). Florilegium, tractans de variis florib. et aliis Indicis plantis ad vivum delineatum in duabus partib. et quatuor linguis concinnatum. Francofurti, Anthonium Kempner, 1612. 2 parts in one volume, folio (400 x 265mm.), part one with engraved title, letterpress title for part 2, engraved portrait of the author, 110 engraved plates, contemporary vellum.
Item number: 21632
Volckamer J.C. Nürnbergische Hesperides, ... Nüremberg, 1708.
VOLCKAMER, Johann Christoph. Nürnbergische Hesperides oder Gründliche Beschreibung Der Edlen Citronat/Citronen und Pomerantzen-Früchte. Nüremberg, 1708. Folio, half calf. (26 x 23,5 cm) Engraved title page + 116 plates + 18 vignettes.
Item number: 22670
Bonelli G. Hortus Romanus ... Rome, 1772-1775.
BONELLI G. Hortus Romanus juxta systema Tournefortianum paulo strictus distributus. Rome: Bouchard and Gravier, 1772-1793. First 3 vols (of a series of 8), large folio (54 x 38,5 cm), contemporary red morocco (some rubbing), hand-marbled endpapers, spine with 7 raised bands, lettered in gilt, gilt triple line on the sides, inner dentelles gilt, gilt edges. 299 (of 300, lacks pl. 44 in vol.3) original hand-coloured plates of flowering plants, including vegetables, 3 vignettes on title pages, 3 portraits, 1 engraved map "Prospectus Horti Romani", occasional minor spotting.
Item number: 13721
Price: €17500 ($22575 / £14875)