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Antiquariaat FORUM BV ASHER Rare Books Tuurdijk 16 Tuurdijk 16 3997 ms ‘t Goy 3997 ms ‘t Goy The Netherlands The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 E–mail: [email protected] E–mail: [email protected] Web: www.forumrarebooks.com Web: www.asherbooks.com www.forumislamicworld.com cover image: no. 11 v 1.10 · 6 September 2021 Very rare overview of the oldest French botanical private garden, including many species only cultivated in the Americas, by the female horticulturist Aglaé Adanson 1. ADANSON, Aglaé. Catalogue des arbres, arbustes et plantes vivages, cultivés en pleine terre, par Mme. Aglaé Adanson, a Baleine. Paris, Imprimerie et Fonderie de Fain, [after 1825, between 1830 and 1840?]. 12°. Disbound. € 2750 Very rare edition of which only two copies are recorded in WorldCat, providing an overview of the trees, shrubs and plants in the Arboretum de Balaine in Villeneuve-sur-Allier, an English-style arboretum and the oldest botanical private garden in France. This arboretum of exotic species was created in 1804 by the female horticulturist Aglaé Adanson (1775–1852), who listed the various trees, shrubs and plants in Catalogue des arbres, arbrisseaux, arbustes et plantes vivaces, cultives en pleine terre à Baleine, près Moulins, departement d’Allier (Paris, Audot, 1825). The present very rare edition is an overview of this famous catalogue, organized alpha- betically in the Linnean system of trees, shrubs and peren- nials, including plants from all over the world, also some which are also cultivated in the North and South Americas, including Chile, Florida, Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia, but she also planted species from Asia. Aglaé Adanson was the daughter of the important naturalist Michael Adanson (1727–1806), a botanical explorer of less known areas in Europe, the Azores and Senegal. Later she also founded the Société d’Horticulture de Paris. Very rare edition of this catalogue, written by one of the most important female hor- ticulturists of her time. Some minor foxing, untrimmed (and therefore the edges are a little frayed), but overall a rare compact summarized edition 23, [1 blank] pp. WorldCat (2 copies); cf. Bradley I, p. 57 (1825 ed.). ☞ More on our website On phanerogams, cryptograms and lichens 2. AFZELIUS, Adamus and Andreas Magnus WADSBERG. De vegetabilibus Svecanis observationes et experimenta. Uppsala, Johan Edman, 1785. 4°. Disbound. € 275 Thesis containing 27 observations of various kinds of phanerogams, cryptograms, lichens etc., with Afzelius as praeses. With traces of paper wrappers and some dog-eared leaves. [4], 36 pp. BMC NH 14; Krok, Afzelius 2. ☞ More on our website Italian florilegium, only copy known with 65 plates printed in up to 6 colours 3. ARENA, Filippo. La natura, e coltura de’ fiori fisicamente esposta. Palermo, Angelo Felicella, 1767–1768. 2 text volumes (4°), bound as 3, and 1 plates volume (oblong 2°). With 65 engraved plates printed in colour, occasionally combining up to 6 colours on one plate. The first plate (here wholly printed in dark green) serves as an (allegorical) frontispiece and includes the name of the author and that of Mario Cammerari, the second plate depicts tools, seeds and details of flowers, the third plate contains parterre designs and the other plates depict flowers (several to each plate). Modern flexible boards, covered with decorated paper. € 140 000 Only copy known with all engraved plates printed in colour, of the first edition of an Italian florilegium. The 65 engravings really stand out and are sometimes printed in up to 6 different colours. The text is written by Filippo Arena (1708–1789), a Jesuit professor of math- ematics and philosophy at the University of Palermo, with a real passion for botany. “But because La natura, e coltura de’ fiori was printed in Sicily, an island far from the principal intel- lectual centres of Europe, his work became known only to a handful of contemporaries, and his significant contributions to the history of botany were never fully recognized. … Volume one is devoted to a general discussion of botany … In fact, it contains a remarkably advanced dissertation on the sexual generation of plants, including the function of pollen and the importance of its transmission by insects, a discovery that has traditionally been attributed to the German botanist Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter … The second volume deals with horticulture, in particular the cultivation of flowers” (Tomasi). Arena also took it upon himself to engrave the 65 plates, which he did with the help of his Jesuit colleague Mario Cammerari. For this he drew heavily on Weinmann’s Phytanthoza iconographia (1737–1745). In the last part of the text (p. 4, part 4) the author comments on the colour prints used in some copies. Even complete copies of this work in black & white are rare on the market, and we have not located any other copy with the plates printed in colour. Without the letterpress title-page to the plates volume, often lacking. Text foxed, about half of the plates have at least some minor restorations in the margins, occasionally just touching the plates (once with a restored clean tear halfway through the illustration), and the first and last few leaves more heavily restored, but mostly restricted to the margins. The restorations are all done professionally and afterward all plates were washed, making a very attractive set. VIII, 440; VIII, “116” [= 416]; [2], 167, [1 blank], [8] pp. plus 65 plates. Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10; De Belder 37; ICCU 006174; Johnston 484; Moncada, Bibl. Siciliana 103; Nissen, BBI 48; Plesch, pp. 128–129; Tomasi, An Oak Spring flora 38; not in Dunthorne; GFB; Hunt. ☞ More on our website Milestone in the development of botany, describing over 5000 plants, more than half illustrated, from the library of Haskell F. Norman 4. BAUHIN, Jean and Jean Henri CHERLER. Historia plantarum universalis. Yverdon, 1650–1651. 3 volumes. Folio. With 3 engraved and 3 letterpress title-pages and 3577 woodcut illustrations in text. The first engraved title-page contains the portraits of the great botanists, with the portraits of Bauhin and Cherler below. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. € 13 500 First and only edition of the magnum opus of the botanist and physician Jean Bauhin (1541– 1613), completed after his death by his son-in-law Jean Henri Cherler, edited by Dominique Chabrée and published at the expense of the Swiss jurist Friedrich Ludwig Graffenried. It gives an encyclopaedic account of over 5000 plants and is divided into 40 books, the first treating fruit trees, with life-size images of various apples, pears etc., and the last treating fungi and tubers, likewise illustrated. “Bauhin’s reputation as a botanist rests upon the encyclopedic Historia plantarum universalis (1650–1651), which was not published until thirty-seven years after his death. It completely overshadows the works published during his lifetime, which give only a limited indication of his originality. … Despite the delay in publication, the work was not obsolete. It contained the description and synonyms of 5,226 plants, primarily from Europe, but with some Eastern and American floras. This represented the fruits of the explorations of Bauhin and his infor- mants, and compilation from ancient and contemporary literature. It also indicates the great progress of botany in the sixteenth century: Brunfels had described 240 plants in 1532; the less accurate Historia plantarum generalis of 1587 reached 3000; the only works to describe more than this number in the succeeding century were by Jean Bauhin and his brother Gaspard” (DSB). Linnaeus honoured the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Jean in the genus name Bauhinia. With the bookplate of the famous book collector Haskell F. Norman (1915–1996). Two volumes have one of their hinges cracked, some occasional foxing, but otherwise in very good condition. [10], 239[=236], 241–406, 409–469[=468], 471–601, [1 blank], 130, 133–440, 9, [3 blank]; [10], 398, [14], 399–1074[=1072], [12]; [10], 212; 882, [2 blank], 12 pp. Arber, pp. 113–114; DSB II, p. 525–527; Hunt 251; Nissen, BBI 103; Norman lib. 141 (this copy); Stafleu & Cowan 368. ☞ More on our website Monumental 12-volume flora, with 721 coloured plates 5. BONNIER, Gaston. Flore complète, illustrée en couleurs, de France, Suisse et Belgique (comprenant la plupart des plantes d’Europe). Paris, Librairie Générale de l’Enseignement; Neuchatel, Delachaux & Niestlé; Brussels, Lebègue, [1912–1935]. 120 instalments plus index (forming 12 volumes). 4°. With 721 coloured plates. All instalments in their original wrappers and stored in three modern grey cloth clamshell boxes. € 675 Complete set of a monumental descriptive European flora, unbound in 120 instalments with the original wrappers, together with the index. “During the last half of the nineteenth century, botany changed from a descriptive science to an experimental one; Gaston Bonnier was one of the botanists responsible for this transformation. … From 1890 to 1922, most of Bonnier’s scientific work was concerned with the relationship between structure and environ- ment. … During this time he wrote extensively … [including] his twelve-volume masterpiece Flore complete …” (DSB). Some of the wrappers separated at the spine, but otherwise in very good condition. Nissen, BBI 205; Stafleu & Cowan 644; for the author: DSB II, pp. 290–291.☞ More on our website 18th-century Dutch general encyclopedia of horticulture and agriculture, animal breeding and the secrets of living to a great age 7. CHOMEL, Noël. Huishoudkundig handboek voor den stedeling en landman; of Chomel, huishoudelijk woordenboek verkort. In vier deelen. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1800–1803. 4 volumes. Large 8°. With 24 hand-coloured engraved plates of different plants, herbs, mushrooms, flowers, trees and animals. All volumes bound in contemporary half goatskin with marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with an orange and blue morocco label. € 1000 Set of four volumes that can serve as a practical handbook for matters pertaining to home economics. It contains information about various flowers, trees, herbs and other plants, such as anise, catnip, tulips and even cannabis, but also fruits (for example apples and lemons) and advice on the best way to cultivate these in your own garden. Although a great part of the four volumes is devoted to horticulture and agriculture at home, they do also discuss illnesses like measles and ailments such as lice and tapeworms and their home remedies, and gives tips and tricks on how to live to a great age. This practical guide on horticulture with tips and tricks to promote human health and the health of animals gives a pervasive insight into the 18th-century knowledge and mentality in and around the house when it concerns home economics and managing a mansion during the Ancien Regime. Bindings slightly worn around the edges, some minor foxing. An attractive set in good condition. XII, 560; [4], 584; [4], 568; [4], 598 pp. Bibliotheca gastronomica 1076; Landwehr, Coloured plates 483; cf. NBG X, col. 370; Brunet I, col. 1849–1850; NNBW VI, cols. 294–295; not in Ferro; Landwehr, Het Nederlandse kookboek. ☞ More on our website An excellent treatise on viniculture 8. COLLIGNON D’ANCY, Théodore. Nouveau mode de culture et d’echalassement de la vigne, applicable à tous les vignobles où l’on cultive les vignes basses. Metz, printed by Dembour and Gangel for Warion, [1847]. 8°. With woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 3 large folding plates, lithographed by Dembours and Gangel. Modern half morocco, preserving the original illustrated wrappers. € 3950 First edition of an excellent treatise on viticulture, presenting a new and economical method of cultivating grapes and producing wine. The first part describes the various grapes cultivated in the Moselle department, as well as methods of cultivation, and introduces a new system of marcotting using iron wire instead of stakes. The subsequent parts are devoted to different steps in the winemaking process, from the picking of grapes to fertilization, with suggestions for improvement. In three tables the author shows the (financial) benefits of his system, and the plates depict his improved method of marcotting. The treatise includes a history of viticulture in the Moselle départment (Lorraine, France). Collignon d’Ancy was a member of the “comice agricole” at Metz. Good copy, with the author’s autograph signature on the back of the half-title. VI, [2], 191, [1 blank] pp. Oberlé, Fastes 976; Simon, Vinaria 53; WorldCat (4 copies); not in Oberlé, Bibl. Bachique; Schoene, Bibliogr. Geschichte des Weines. ☞ More on our website Scarce Dutch translation of a pamphlet on the mangel beet, with a hand-coloured folding plate 9. COMMERELL, Abbé de, John Coakley LETTSOM (transl.) and Jan Christiaan SEPP (transl.) Bericht wegens de aankweeking en het gebruik van den schaarsheid – of mangel- wortel. Amsterdam, C.N. Guerin, 1789. 8°. With 1 folding hand-coloured plate and a woodcut tailpiece of a fruit basket. 19th-century half cloth, Stormont marbled sides. € 1750 First edition of the Dutch translation of Instruction sur la culture, l’usage, et les avantages de la betterave champêtre … by Abbé de Commerell (Paris, 1786), after the 4th edition of the English translation by John Coakley Lettsom. Translated into Dutch by Jan Christiaan Sepp. The mangel beet, a cultivar of the common beet Beta vulgaris, is now grown primarily as cattle fodder, but was formerly eaten by people and used to make a fermented drink. With a new 8-page preface by the secretary of the Amsterdam Maatschappij ter Bevordering van den Landbouw, with the live signature of the secretary, H. Calkoen, in brown ink. In very good condition and largely untrimmed, preserving most deckles and point holes. [4], XII, 80 pp. STCN (2 copies). ☞ More on our website Valuable contribution to the study of orchids, with ca. 1000 illustration on 30 colour plates 10. CONSTANTIN, Julien. Les orchidées cultivées. Comprenant de nombreux dessins en noir. Avec la description détaillée de toutes les espèces cultivées de toutes les variétés connues et avec l’enumération de tous les hybrides. Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911–1913]. With numerous wood engraved illustrations in text. With: (2) CONSTANTIN, Julien. Atlas des orchidées cultivées. Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911–1913]. With ca. 1000 illustration on 30 colour printed plates. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, with the wrappers of two instalments bound in. € 675 First and only edition of a description of 436 species of cultivated orchids, together with the complementary but separately published Atlas des orchidées cultivées, with ca. 1000 illustration on 30 colour printed plates. The atlas also contains information on the cultivation and origin of the plant. It forms a valuable contribution to the study of orchids. Both works were simultaneously published in instalments starting in 1911. In very good condition, only the spine slightly discoloured. 88; 106 pp. ☞ More on our website Early contribution to the founding of paleobotany 12. DEFRANCE, Jacques Louis Marin. Tableau des corps organisés fossiles, précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1824. 8°. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine. € 500 Rare first and only edition of this important early contribution to the founding of paleobotany: the study of fossil plants. The study expands on the first works that formulated the basic conceptions of this new field of research by Rhode, Pflanzenkunde der Vorwelt (1820) and Kaspar Sternberg’s Flora der Vorwelt (1820–1825). “Defrance was one of the most industrious and careful of the early papaeontographical annotators. In his Tableau … he gave a short account of all known fossils, with accurate mention of their localities and state of preservation” (Zittel). Jacques Louis Marin Defrance (1758–1850) was founder member of the Geological Society of France and was one of the first to work on the chemistry of fossilization. With the owner’s entry of “Holmi” on the front endpaper and an 1849 inscription by Holmi to “Lhörch” on the title page. Binding worn at the hinges and sides. [4], XVI, 136 pp. Ward & Carozzi, 613; Zittel, p. 126; Cat.. du livres … de feu J.B. Huzare, no. 2135; Bibl. of the Foraminifera (1888), p. 38; Ward, Sketch of Paleobotany (1885), p. 405. ☞ More on our website Orchids of the French colonies, with 110 engraved plates 13. DU PETIT-THOUARS, Louis-Marie Aubert. Histoire particulière des plantes orchidées recueillies sur les trois iles australes d’Afrique, de France, de Bourbon et de Madagascar. Paris, the author, Arthus Bertrand and Treuttel and Wurtz, 1822. 8°. With 110 continuously numbered engraved illustrations of orchids and 2 folding tables. Modern blue cloth. € 4750 Extensively illustrated work on orchids from the East African islands of France, Bourbon and Madagascar, by the French traveller and botanist Du Petit- Thouars (1758–1831), a brother of the well-known marine officer Abel-Aubert Du Petit-Thouars. The plates were published separately between 1804 and 1822, and were issued together with the text (in two parts) as quarto (with coloured plates) and octavo (uncoloured). All these different issues explain the different collations of this work. Our copy has the complete text, though it ends with a catchword. The plates in our copy are continuously numbered, though the numbering of the copy described by Stafleu & Cowan slightly differs. Old owner’s inscription cut from right upper corner of the title-page, the text and a few plates foxed and a few minor tears in the margins of the plates. A good copy. VII, [1], 32 pp. (text). BMC NH, p. 493; Nissen, BBI 564; Stafleu & Cowan 1586. ☞ More on our website Botanical lexicon with worldwide plants, trees and flowers 14. EEDEN, Frederik Willem van. Hortus Batavus. Korte beschrijving van in – en uitheemsche planten, heesters en boomen, die voor de Nederlandsche tuinen kunnen worden aanbevolen. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1868. Large 8°. Green cloth with gold-tooled title, yellow endpapers. € 350 The first and only edition of Van Eedens guide to domestic and foreign plants, flowers and trees from every corner all over the world: from China and Japan to Africa, Mexico and Greece. Van Eeden, an agronomist and botanist, says all these flowers are suitable for cultivating in Dutch gardens. Stafleu & Cowan indicate that it was first issued in parts, under the title Bloemkundig woordenboek. Although this work is quite learned due to the quantity of information and the Latin names of the plants, trees and flowers, it would have been very accessible and easy to read for the general public seeking information about different plants, flowers and trees they could sow in their garden. Front hinge cracked, stain on the back board, but still in a good condition. [8], 637 pp. Arnold Arboretum I, p. 225; Jackson, p. 439; Stafleu & Cowan 1626; for the author: Stafleu & Cowan, p. 725. ☞ More on our website On the irritability of plants 16. FALLÉN, Carl Fredrik and Johan Magnus LINDFORS. Dissertatio de irritabilitate motus caussa in plantis. Lund, Berling, 1798. 4°. Disbound. € 225 Lindfors’s dissertation on the causes of irritability movements in plants, with the Swedish botanist and entomologist Carl Fredrik Fallén as praeses. Some small stains on the title-page. 28 pp. Krok, Fallén 2; WorldCat (6 copies). ☞ More on our website A famous mushroom book with 41 chromo-lithographed plates 17. FAVRE-GUILLARMOD, Louis. Les Champignons Comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient ètre confondus. Neuchatel, J. Sandoz; Paris, Librarie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 1869. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4°. With 41 chromo-lithographed plates. Modern half morocco. € 500 Very rare monograph on edible and inedible mushrooms, written by the famous professor Louis Favre- Guillarmod (1822–1904). This book is the first edition of the complete text, the first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, which describes mushrooms from the Canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland. The second part has a new introduction in which the author states that after eight years he wants to give extra information to the public because many problems occurred with people not knowing which mushrooms could be eaten. In part two, p. 11 and its plate are misbound (between pp. 44 & 45). Waterstain in lower margin, some leaves repaired, a few annotations in ink, library stamps on title-page. 53, [2]; 9, [1 blank], 47, [1] pp. Ekama, p. 407; KVK (1 copy); WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Kelly, p. 76 (1st ed., part 1 only). ☞ More on our website The flora and geology of Marienbad, with contributions by Goethe and Friedrich August II 18. FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER. Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, … ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes. Prague, Kronberger and Weber (“Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne”), 1837. 8°. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I–II, [III], IV–V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 1000 First and only edition of a collection of botanical and geological articles on the spa town Marienbad (Mariánské Láznì), now part of the Czech Republic. It contains a transcription of Goethe’s manuscript catalogue of the geological specimens he collected in Marienbad in 1821, introduced by the local physician Karl Joseph Heidler, who also expanded Goethe’s notes. It further contains short botanical descriptions of the local flora by Friedrich August II, since 1836 King of Saxony, and several articles on various topics regarding the town and its mineral spas by Heidler himself. Foxed and with a marginal water stain through the first third of the book. Binding somewhat scuffed and with the front hinge restored with cloth. First and only edition of a collection of articles on Marienbad. X, 203, [1 blank] pp. BMC NH, p. 621; Pritzel 3058. ☞ More on our website A curious history of tobacco 19. [GAVELLI, Niccolo]. Storia distinta, e curiosa del tabacco concernente la sua scoperta, la introduzione in Europa, e la maniere di coltivarlo,... Pesaro, Niccolo Gavelli, 1758. 8°. With the title-page in first issue with “copiosa” (for “curiosa”) corrected with a slip reading “cur” pasted over the first three letters. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. € 1500 First edition, first issue, of a clear and curious history of tobacco, discussing its discovery, its introduction into Europe, and the method of cultivating, preserving and preparing it for use, with other very good and useful observations concerning the same. The preface announces that this book is being issued to provide practical as well as general information on tobacco at a time when it could be freely cultivated within the papal territories. It gives the usual historical and botanical details together with advice on tobacco farming. It provides essential information about the cultivation of tobacco, its nomenclature, the kinds grown in the Americas, manufacture of rolls, methods of planting practised in Virginia and Maryland, various simple phases of agronomics, construction of drying-sheds, the proper means of curing tobacco (as carried on in Virginia and Maryland), packaging of and con- tainers for tobacco, the methods of cultivation in vogue in France and Persia and, at some length, an account of the process of manufacturing snuff in Italy. There is, as well, a record of the prices of various kinds of tobacco under the late monopoly, the commerce in this commodity, current rates in Amsterdam, and the import and export duties established in Holland. The concluding section deals with the remedial virtues of tobacco, with references to the usual and lesser-known authorities. Front hinge weak. A fine and clean copy of a history of tobacco. 84 pp. Arents 816 (cf. also 817, the 2nd ed.); Pritzel 3540. ☞ More on our website Experiments with fruit trees and vines 20. GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. … Nuova edizione. With: (2) IDEM. La vite piramidale. … Seconda edizione. Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8°. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publisher’s catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publisher’s printed paper wrappers. € 750 Second edition of a treatise on fruit-bearing plants, with a chapter on diseases. With the second edition of a monograph on the attempts to grow vines upwards in a pyramidal shape. Both with woodcut illustrations by A. Monneret that depict examples of trees, often without leaves. The author Amedeo Genesy was a lawyer and a professor of fruit growing at the Turin academy of agriculture. He was part of a group of scientists from the Piedmontese Agricultural Society (Società Agraria) who experimented in the orchard of l’Orto del Valentino, where they searched for new varieties of fruit, new techniques, machines, tools etc. Slight foxed on the wrappers and inside, otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed. [2], X, 200; 64 pp. Nuova enciclopedia agraria Italiana I, p. 484; for the author: Carlo Fideghelli, Atltante dei fruttiferi autoctoni Italiani, I, p. 119. ☞ More on our website Untrimmed copy of Goethe on botany 21. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Essai sur la métamorphose des plantes. Geneva, Paris, J. Barbezat, 1829. 8°. Original publisher’s grey printed paper wrappers. € 1000 First edition in French of an important botanical study by Germany’s greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) into the origins and processes of life. His scientific career had actually started at the court of Weimar, where he was summoned in 1775, and where his duties soon included the supervision of mining in the duchy. His main goal was finding a theory to explain all living forms, plants and animals. The Urpflanze, as an Urform of nature, would show – according to Goethe – the diversity of types which had evolved and would help chart the processes of life. His ideas on plant form had a considerable influence on European botany, and some people even considered them a precursor of Darwinism. The present work is a fascinating exercise in probing the “mind of nature” via a study of its phenomena, in this case plant life. As such, it is thoroughly representative of the school of Nature Philosophy. It first appeared in German, in 1790, and Frédéric de Cingins-Lassaraz translated it into French for the present edition. Very good, untrimmed copy, slightly foxed, and somewhat dog-eared, small tear in front wrapper. Attractive copy of a study on the philosophy of botany by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. XIV, 15–87, [1 blank] pp. Pritzel 3452; cf. DSB V, pp. 442–446; Norman Library 913 (first German ed.); Stiftung für Botanik 293 (first German ed.). ☞ More on our website Finely illustrated work on garden design and layout, much expanded second edition with 107 engraved plates 23. [GUIOL]. Essai sur la composition et l’ornement des jardins; ou recueil de plans de jardins de ville et de campagne, de fabriques propres a leur décoration, et de machines pour élever les eaux. Paris, Audot, 1823. Oblong 4° (18 × 21 cm). With 107 numbered engraved plates on 82 leaves. Contemporary tree calf, richly gold- tooled spine. € 2500 Much expanded second edition of a finely illustrated work on garden design and layout. The first 37 pages contain the Essai, which refers often to the illustrations bound in at the end of the work. The author gives a general introduction on gardens and objects which can be used for adornment, such as bridges, all sorts of buildings, fountains, etc. This part is followed by a section with tables of edible plants, ornamental plants, low, medium and high trees, bushes etc. Guiol specifies for each species the preferable type of soil, whether it needs sun or shade, height, colour, flowering time, etc. With the general indications, the information of the tables and the examples of possible layouts, labyrinths, bridges, pavilions, temples, fountains and other possible garden constructions, the reader is equipped with sufficient knowledge to lay out a garden. Some occasional minor thumbing and the binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition. [4], 37, [1]; 33, [1] pp. Barbier II, col. 237 note; Ganay 186; Springer, Bibl. Overzicht, p. 77 (see also pp. 79–80). ☞ More on our website Rare work on Hungarian and Transsylvanian flora 24. HABERLE, Karl K. Chr. Succincta rei herbariae hungaricae et transsilvanicae historia. Buda, Typis Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae, 1830. 8°. Modern cloth. € 750 A short history of the study of Hungarian and Transsylvanian flora, giving a survey of botanical literature by Hungarian and foreign scholars from the 16th century to 1830. He also includes a list of plants, which were discussed but not named by Winterl and which were subsequently discussed and named by Kitaibel without referring to Winterl’s publications. Haberle then sketches the history of the botanical garden at the Royal Hungarian University and gives an extensive list of private botanical gardens throughout Hungary and Transsylvania. Karl K. Chr. Haberle (1764–1832) became professor of botany at the University of Pest in 1817 and succeeded Paul Kitaibel as director of the botanical garden upon the latter’s death. He published in the fields of botany, mineralogy and meteorology. With bookplates of Arpad Plesch. Title-page slightly soiled and some minor foxing. Good copy. 66 pp. Pritzel 3672; Stafleu & Cowan 2227 (1 copy). ☞ More on our website Botanical almanac for women and girls, with illustrated title-page and 14 flower plates, all hand-coloured 25. [KRAUSS, Johan Carl]. Almanach der kruid-kunde voor het Jaar 1800. Tot onderrichting en vermaak voor het schoone geslacht, als ook voor die genen die de eerste beginselen der kruidkunde beöefenen. Amsterdam, Jan Barend Elwe, [1799]. 12°. With engraved title-page and 14 botanical flower and herb plates, all hand-coloured. Contemporary stiff, yellow paper wrappers. € 950 Beautifully illustrated and hand-coloured introduction to herbs and flowers, published as an almanac for women and girls and designed to teach them the principles of botany. It is the first of four annual volumes published. The first twelve plates show plant species of classes one to six and eight to thirteen, so the plates are accordingly numbered Cl. I–VI and VIII–XIII. Each plate is accompanied by one leaf of letterpress text. Even though these texts are numbered I–XII, the names and classes agree with the plates. These are preceded by 6 leaves containing the 12 months of the calendar and another 6 with information on eclipses, holidays, advice to girls or women interested in botany and an introduction to the botanical texts. The last two plates and the numbered pages then follow with a thorough instruction on herbs and flowers, which continued in the almanacs for the following three years. These rare almanacs, really quite thorough botanical instruction books, were edited by the celebrated botanist Johan Carl Krauss (1759–1826). In very good condition. The wrapper is slightly dirty and the spine slightly tattered, but also very good. A rare and lovely little almanac designed to teach botany to women and girls, with 14 coloured botanical plates. [12], 3, [9], pp. XII ll., 52 pp. Jacobsen Jensen 301; Waller, Cat. Ned. populaire boeken 92. ☞ More on our website First edition of Labillardière’s famous voyage in search of La Pérouse, with 44 plates, including 14 after Redouté 26. LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Relation du voyage a la recherche de la Pérouse. Including: Atlas pour servir à la Relation du voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, … Paris, H.J. Jansen, An VIII [= 1799/1800]. 3 volumes. 4° (2 text volumes) and 2° (atlas). Atlas with engraved title-page, large folding map (59 × 86.5 cm) and 43 full-page engraved plates (numbered 2–44), including 14 botanical plates drawn or completed by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Modern mottled half calf. € 12 500 First edition of Labillardière’s famous and finely illustrated narrative, a classic work of travel literature. The mysterious disappearance of the great French explorer Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse, led to much speculation in France. On 9 February 1791 the Constituent Assembly passed a decree ordering, among other things, that the King be petitioned to order the fitting out of one or more ships equipped with natu- ralists, other scientists and draughtsman, with the two-fold mission of searching for De la Pérouse and of making inquiries relative to the sciences and to commerce. Two ships, under the command of Captain Kermadec, proceeded via the Cape of Good Hope to Tasmania, they made extensive investigations of its coastline. They also visited New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga, New Britain and other groups, making extensive inquiries, but found no trace of the missing navigator (Ferguson). The voyage, however, yielded a vast amount of new and valuable information on Australia’s natural history and the aboriginal people of Tasmania. Each text volume with library stampse. Plates mounted on new stubs, a few plates slightly frayed along the edges, some mostly marginal foxing and occasionally other spots or smudges, more serious in the title-pages and half-titles. Otherwise in very good condition. 4to edition of Labillardière’s celebrated voyage in search of La Pérouse, with plates after Redouté. XVI, 442; 332, 113, [1] pp. Ferguson 307; Kroepelien 697; Nissen, ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420. ☞ More on our website First western book on bonsai trees 27. LIEGELSTEINER, George. Wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz-Bäume gewartet werden müssen, … Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1747. 8°. With woodcut frontispiece, 8 engraved figures on 1 folding plate, and about 30 woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 3500 Very rare last and most extensive edition of the first Western book on the cultivation of dwarf trees, extensively illustrated. All editions are very rare and this important and remarkably early account appears to have been wholly overlooked in the botanical, arbocultural and horticultural literature. “[Liegelsteiner] understands tree physiology like only a small minority of bonsai enthusiasts today” (Walter Pall). The technique he describes is exactly the traditional “Chinese” technique, and he explains in detail how, when and where to clip both roots and branches, advises trans- planting trees regularly, notes correct and incorrect clipping techniques, gives instructions for correcting a lopsided tree, and for encouraging the bearing of tasty fruit. He also includes a chapter on training peach, apricot, plum and cherry trees on latticework, and an 8-page appendix (apparently new to this edition) on improving poor soil and enhancing wood growth. The 9-page “Vorrede” by an unidentified hortophile, also apparently new, gives valuable and detailed information about the introduction of the cultivation of dwarf trees to the European gardens. With a manuscript shelf(?) number on title-page, otherwise in very good condition. Endpapers browned, and binding slightly rubbed, but still good. [1 blank], [11], 143, [9] pp. WorldCat (8 copies); cf. W. Pall, “Dwarf Trees of George Liegelsteiner”, Bonsai Magazine III, pp. 38–39 (1725 ed.); not in Arnold Arboretum; BMC NH; Nissen; Pritzel; etc. ☞ More on our website The cultivation of foreign orchids in Europe 28. LINDEN, Lucien, Alfred COGNIAUX and G. GRIGNAN. Les orchidées exotiques et leur culture en Europe. Brussels; for the author; Paris, Octave Doin; Ghent, Eugene Vander Haeghen, 1894. Large 8° (25.5 × 16.5 cm). With a wood-engraved portrait of Jean Jules Linden and 141 wood-engraved illustrations, mostly in text. Modern red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, bound by Lobstein- Laurenchet. € 600 First edition of an extensive and richly illustrated handbook on orchids, by the Belgian botanists Lucien Linden (1851–1940), Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916) and Georges(?) Grignan. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with the scientific aspects of the research on orchids, dealing with classification and nomenclature and the geographical distribution of orchids. The second part describes the history of orchids, the importation of non-European species to Europe and their habitats. The third part describes the cultivation of orchids in Europe, with sections of the appropriate temperature, compost and water, repotting, greenhouses, airing and shading, insecticides, etc., also commenting on the prices and commercial/industrial uses of orchids. The last part contains descriptions of the most common orchids cultivated in Europe. With owner’s inscription on title-page. First and last few leaves slightly foxed, occasionally a tiny spot. Spine discoloured. Otherwise in very good condition. XIV, 1019, [1] pp. Arnold Arboretum I, p. 429. ☞ More on our website Rare and beautiful model prints for flower painting, intended for young women, by a leading Meissen porcelain painter 29. LÜCK, Johann Friedrich (or a son). Eerste handleiding tot de bloem – teken – schilder – en borduurkonst, in XXIV. voorbeelden van bloemen en vruchten, in omtrekken en kleuren, nevens eene tafel der onderscheidene verwen. Amsterdam, W. Holtrop, 1802. Oblong 8° (text) and oblong small 4° (plates) (12 × 17.5 cm). With loose full-page engraved colour-key plate showing 66 numbered small rectangles, hand-coloured as samples of watercolours, and 24 loose full-page engraved plates, each with a pair (or in one case 2 pair) of nearly identical flowering or fruit-bearing plants (plate size 9.5 × 14 cm), the left-hand examples left uncoloured and the right-hand examples coloured as a guide. Complete with the undated prospectus (one 8° leaf, 22.5 × 12.5 cm, printed on both sides) with an engraved tulip at the head, nearly identical to no. 13 in the plates, but differently coloured. Loose in (later?) green paper wrapper, in contemporary slipcase covered with marbled paper. The 25 prints with gilt edges. € 15 000 Rare first and only edition of an exceptionally beautiful model book for painting, colouring and embroidery, mainly of flowers and fruits, designed by a painter from the famous Saxon porcelain factory at Meissen. The title-page merely calls him “Lück”, but he must be either Johann Heinrich Lück (1727–1797), one of the most famous Meissen porcelain painters, or (since it does not indicate that he had recently died) possibly a son. The booklet accompany- ing the prints includes 11 pages of instructions and advice, and a numbered list of the 66 pigments used for the colour key. The prospectus includes a numbered list of the flower plates (and notes the colour key), a French poem by De Lille (both also present in the album itself), and a letter by the publisher addressed to “Nederlandsche Juffers” (Dutch young ladies), especially recom- mending Lück’s models for their “creations with brush and needle”. If accepted gratefully, the publisher would consider a second volume as well, but none appeared. We have located only one other copy (at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam). In fine condition. Rare popular guide to flower painting, intended for young ladies, by a leading painter of Meissen porcelain. 16 pp. (incl. 1–2 blank) plus plates. Saalmink, p. 1195 (1 copy); Picarta (same copy); WorldCat (same copy). ☞ More on our website Highly detailed and richly illustrated treatise on monocots 30. MENEGHINI, Giuseppe. Ricerche sulla struttura del caule nelle piante monocotiledoni. Padua, Minerva, 1836. Large 4° (33 × 23 cm). With 10 lithographed plates. Slightly later half calf. € 400 First and only edition of a treatise on monocots. In this “beautiful work … several species of monocotyledonous stems are anatomically characterized with great accuracy, and explained by figures” (Meyen). Meneghini combines his own observations and knowledge with the work of other authors, as can be seen in the extensive footnotes, and finally treats six questions by which he presents his conclusions. Giuseppe Meneghini (1811–1889) was an Italian botanist and geologist who from 1849 onwards was professor of geology at the University of Pisa. Among his publications were several on the geology of Tuscany and trilobite and ammonite fossils from Sardinia and Lombardy. With a bookseller’s ticket on the pastedown, an owner’s stamp on the verso of the first flyleaf and heavily blackened owner’s inscriptions on the title-page, partly bleeding through to the next leaf. Binding rubbed and worn but structurally sound. Some foxing throughout but otherwise a good copy. [6], 110, [1, 1 blank] pp. Meyen, “A report on the progress of vegetable physiology during the year 1836”, in: The London and Edinburgh philosophical magazine and journal of science XII (1838), pp. 64–71; Pritzel 212. ☞ More on our website Dutch edition of an extensive encyclopaedia for gardeners 31. MILLER, Philip (Jakob van EEMS, translator). Groot en algemeen kruidkundig, hoveniers, en bloemisten woordenboek, behelzende de manier om moes-, bloem-, vrugt-, kruid-tuinen, wild-bossen, wijngaarden, oranje-huizen, stook-kassen, enz. aanteleggen, enz. en allerlei gewassen te kweeken … Volgens den laatsten druk, uit het Engels vertaald door Jakob van Eems. Leyden, Pieter vander Eyk & the widow of Jakob vander Kluis (colophon vol. 2: printing office of [Hendrik II and Daniel] van Damme), [1742]-1745. 2 volumes bound as 1, issued in 4 instalments. Folio. Title-pages to volumes 1 and 2 printed in red and black, each with a woodcut vignette, 13 engraved plates (12 folding) by J. v.d. Spyk, some engravings and woodcuts in the text. Here with one of the part-titles (volume 1, part 2, dated 1743 and naming Jakob vander Kluis rather than his widow) preserved between quires 2Z & 3A (between pp. 364 & 365). Contemporary blind-tooled calf. Rebacked. € 2500 First Dutch edition of an extensive gardener’s encyclopaedia by the English gardener and botanist Philip Miller (1691–1771), first published in London by the author in 1731, containing the methods of cultivating and improving kitchen, herb, fruit and flower gardens, as well as green houses and vineyards. Also containing directions for the cultivation of all sorts of plants and trees, the history of plants, the characters and names of each species and genus, and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening. The engraved plates show presses, greenhouses, garden plans, etc. Dedicated to the Leiden professor of Medicine and Botany Adrianus van Royen (1704–1779), who also wrote the preface. Although the title-pages to both volumes are dated 1745, the 2 volumes were issued in 4 instalments, from 1742 to 1745, and the present copy preserves a part-title, dated 1743 and not usually present, between quires 2Z and 3A, between pp. 364 and 365 (the encyclopedia’s text for words beginning with the letter H begins on A1r, p. 365). Some browning or spotting, marginal water stains towards the end, not affecting the illustrations, but still in good condition. [18], 44, *43–44, 45–593, [1 blank]; [2], 595–1238, [2] pp. Pritzel 6237; Stafleu & Cowan 6047; cf. Henrey 1101–1123 (English. eds., incl. abridgements), Hunt 563, Nissen, BBI 1378; Plesch, pp. 337–338. ☞ More on our website Manuscript of one of the first printed books on Dutch poisonous plants, together with the printed edition, bound with an unpublished pharmacological manuscript 32. [MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm.]. Over de Noord-Nederlandsche vergiftige gewaschen. [Rotterdam?, 1836?]. 4°. Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a small but neat Latin hand. With: [MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm?]. Pharmacie. [Rotterdam?, ca. 1845?]. 8°. Manuscript in brown ink on wove paper, written in Dutch in a small but neat Latin hand. Near contemporary half cloth (impressed with a diamond diaper pattern), marbled sides (light brown unusual spots on dark brown shell spots, the interior of the unusual spots looking more like “tour- niquet” or “Gustav” marbling than Stormont or “cassés”), sewn on 2 tapes. With the second manuscript never sewn or bound and loosely inserted. Together with: (2) MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. De Noord- Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke (back of title-page: printed by C.A. Spin), 1836–1837. 8°. With 30 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers over boards. € 3950 Manuscript, apparently by the author, of one of the first printed books on Dutch poisonous plants and one of the earliest works of the eminent botanist Friedrich Miquel, giving detailed descriptions and discussing the toxic properties of nearly 200 species: flowering plants, mushrooms, grasses and berries, including belladonna and some species of nightshade. It covers both indigenous species and foreign species grown in Dutch gardens and for most species gives the Latin, Dutch, French, English, German and sometimes other names, the Linnaean class, a physical description, locations and seasons, medicinal properties and a description of the symptoms of its poisoning. It is one of Miquel’s earliest works, printed in 1836–1837, and was intended primarily for physicians and laymen. Though first published at Amsterdam in 1836 as De Noord- Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen (with the title matching the present manuscript except that the last word is spelled “gewassen”), the author signed his foreword from Rotterdam, September 1836. The text of the first edition closely matches the present manuscript, but adds the foreword and references to the engraved plates. The manuscript, like the first edition, refers to an 1835 publication. A second edition appeared in 1838. Loosely inserted in the bound manuscript is a second manuscript, probably somewhat later but in what appears to be the same hand. Its title-page bears only the single word Pharmacie, it appears to be unpublished, is written on unwatermarked wove paper and collates: [A]12 [B]16 = 28 ll., with B12–16 blank. It may therefore be an unpublished pharmacological work by Miquel. The manuscript volume is here offered together with the first edition of De Noord- Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen. The preface of this text volume notes that all 30 plates were produced by the acclaimed lithographic artist and printer Aimé Henry in Bonn, some originally for Henry’s Die Giftpflanzen Deutschlandsand some newly made for the present work. The printed edition of the Noord-Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen with an owner’s inscription on the half-title and an annotation and underlining in the margin and text on p. 9. The binding of this volume is worn and some pieces of paper are missing on the spine, especially at the bottom and around the hinges. Some foxing and browning throughout the book, although a copy with the original publisher’s binding. A beautiful set of two complementing volumes, not only containing the first edition of Miquel’s book on Dutch poisonous plants, but also the manuscript of this work together with another rare, unpublished pharmalogical manuscript. Ad 1: [1], [3 blank], 145, [3 blank] pp.; [3], 10, [10], [5 blank] ll., both written primarily on the rectos. Ad 2: 198, [2 blank] pp. Ad 2: Ekama I, p. 373; Landwehr, Coloured plates 140; Nissen BBI 1388; Pritzel 6257; Stafleu & Cowan 6088. For Miquel: Stafleu, “F.A.W. Miquel, Netherlands botanist”, in: Mededelingen v.h. Botanisch Museum en Herbarium … Utrecht, 220 (1966), pp. 1–95, item 11; Wittop Koning, p. 270. ☞ More on our website Monograph on Melocacti, with 11 plates: 6 folding and coloured by hand 33. MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. Monographia generis Melocacti. Breslau & Bonn, Eduard Weber, 1840. 4°. With 11 lithographed numbered plates, including 6 folding and coloured by hand and 2 partly coloured. Slightly later half cloth. € 750 A well-illustrated monograph on Melocacti, also known as melon cacti, known for their distinctive heavily ribbed bodies. It’s a rare offprint from the supplement to volume 18 of the Novum actorum Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, with a new title-page, page numbers and quire signatures, and apparently published a year before the journal. Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811– 1871) was a Dutch botanist, practicing physician and director of the botanical garden at Amsterdam (1846–1859), Utrecht (1859–1871), and the Leiden Rijksherbarium from 1862. With the gold-blocked red sheepskin bookplate of the Hungarian-born collector of botanical books Arpad Plesch (1889–1974) and a deaccession note from the Biliothèques Boissier et de Candolle. The plates are slightly browned (as usual), but the book is internally otherwise in very good condition. Spines cracked, and back board almost detached. 120, 120b-120c pp. Nissen, BBI 1387; Plesch, p. 338 (this copy); Stafleu & Cowan 6093. ☞ More on our website 19th-century work on plant cell biology and cyto-chemistry 34. MOHL, Hugo von. Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts. Tübingen, Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1845. 4°. With 13 numbered lithographed plates; 3 partly and 2 fully coloured by hand, drawn by Mohl himself and printed by F. Federer. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 500 A collection of 31 articles previously published between 1836 and 1842 in various botanical journals, some here revised or augmented. It marks the end of the early period of Mohl’s work. Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872) was a famous German botanist, outstanding plant anatomist and physiologist, and professor at Tübingen University, who renewed the technique of microscopy. His most lasting research was in the field of plant cell structure and physiology, where his meticulous observations were the first attempts at cyto-chemistry. He differentiated the cell membrane, nucleus, cellular fluid, utricle and a substance he called “protoplasm”. This term had earlier been used by the Czech physiologist Purkinje to denote the embryonic material of eggs. Mohl was the first person (1846) to use the term protoplasm in plant cell biology. For him, protoplasm was a preliminary substance in cell generation, a quite different sense than modern usage (which dates from Schultze). He was also the first to clearly explain osmosis, and he discovered that the secondary walls of plant cells are fibrous. A good copy, with only some foxing, and a small water stain in the gutter margin of the first 10 pages. Binding slightly rubbed and partly cracked at the hinges. VIII, 442 pp. Pritzel 6349; Stafleu & Cowan 6187. ☞ More on our website Practical manual for the cultivation of flowers and fruit trees, with frontispiece and 5 plates 35. OOSTEN, Hendrik van. De Neederlandsen hof, beplant met bloemen, ooft en orangerijen; … Den tweeden druk. With: (2) OOSTEN, Hendrik van. Register van alle de soorten der voornaamste vrugten, … Dito een register van alle de saaden, behoorende tot de moestuinery. … Leiden, “voor den uitgeever” [= Hendrik van Oosten], sold by Johannes Du Vivié and Isaac Severinus, 1703. Small 8° & large 16°. With an engraved frontispiece after Jan Goeree by P. Sluyter, and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. € 2500 Second, greatly expanded edition of a popular instruction book for the planting and cultivation of flowers and fruit trees and the tending of a greenhouse, especially intended for young people and first published asDe nieuwe Nederlandse bloem-hof. The text comprises five treatises, devoted to flowers in general, tulips, carnations, trees & tree fruits and orange & lime trees. Each treatise after the first has its own divisional title-page. All is taught in short chapters in clear and succinct instructions. The grafting of tree branches is illustrated with 4 engraved figures, each on a separate plate. The rarer, separately published Register lists hundreds of varieties of fruits and seeds, with extensive space left blank so that the reader can add other varieties. The preface notes that the book is especially intended for both amateurs and professionals, but especially for the young who will in the future own and care for flower gardens and orchards. The cultivation of flowers and the laying out of gardens had long been very popular in the Netherlands. With a few quires somewhat browned and the sewing of one quire coming loose, but otherwise in very good condition. The spine is soiled and has a small worm hole, but is otherwise very good. Second edition of a practical manual by a professional florist and tree grafter. [1 blank], [7], 286, [2 blank]; [2 blank], [6], 55, [1 blank] pp. Ad 1: Kuijlen & Wijnands, p. 59; KVK & WorldCat (8 copies); STCN (3 of the same copies, incl. 1 lacking the frontispiece); ad 2: KVK & WorldCat (4 copies); STCN (3 copies). ☞ More on our website Chromolithographs of Dutch fruits & berries 36. OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche flora en pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4°. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates after A.J. Wendel. Modern half morocco. € 1950 An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromo- lithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos. The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the plates are fresh and in very good condition. [8], 235, [1 blank], IX pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. ☞ More on our website Poisonous plants and mushrooms from the Alsace 37. [POISONOUS PLANTS]. Die Giftpflanzen des Elsasses. Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1825. 8°. With a lithographed half-title, title-page and 37 lithographed plates. Original publisher’s printed boards. € 750 First and only edition of an anonymous work on the poisonous plants of the Alsace, eastern France, also including mushrooms. The text includes a brief preface, a table of contents, and brief description of the 37 poisonous plants, all shown on the lithographed plates. Half-title stained, some foxing and marginal (water) stain; binding stained and damaged along the spine; plates good. [4], VI, 7–46, [2 blank] pp. Bradley III, p. 73. ☞ More on our website First edition of a revolutionary work on plant tissues 38. PURKINJE, Jan Evangelista. De cellulis antherarum fibrosis nec non de granorum pollinarium formis. Commentatio phytotomica. Vratislaviae [Wroclaw], sumtibus J.D. Gruesonii [= J.D. Grueson], 1830. 4° (24 × 19.5 cm). With 18 lithographic plates showing cell structures of plants. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled borders and a blind-tooled frame with a gold-tooled centrepiece, gilt edges. € 1100 First edition of a dynamic work on plant tissues. Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787–1869) is mostly known for his medical research. As professor of physiology he can be seen as a pioneer in experimental physiology of the human body, especially for our knowledge and understanding of the eye and vision, brain and heart function, mammalian reproduction and also the composition of cells. However, he wasn’t only interested in the human body and tissues, but also in the cel structure of plants. Stimulated by his colleague A.W. Henschel, he started studying plant structures, “mainly the elastic fibrous cells of the anthers and the form of the pollen and spores in relation to the mechanism of their disper- sion” (DSB). Although Purkinje pioneered the field of plant physiology, he is better known as a game changer in medical science. The name of Dr. Jan Mitvalsky on the first free endpaper, presumably the Czech physician (1861–1899), reflects this. On the title we can read two other names. Corners slightly bumped, otherwise in very good condition. viii, 58 pp. Bradley I, p. 117; Cat. Lindley libr., p. 361; Pritzel, 7368; for the author: DSB XI, pp. 213–217. ☞ More on our website Rare catalogue of the plants of Java and printed there 39. RADERMACHER, Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de. Naamlyst der planten, die gevonden worden op het eiland Java. Met de beschryving van eenige nieuwe geslagten en soorten, … Batavia, Egbert Heemen (vols. 1–2) and Pieter van Geemen (vol. 3), 1780–1782. 7 parts in 3 volumes, bound as 1. 4°. Lacking pp. 85–102 in vol. 3. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. € 12 500 Rare first and only edition of a catalogue of the plants found on the island of Java, Indonesia. The work was published in three volumes, the first containing descriptions of plants not recorded by Rumphius and Houttuyn and the second and third listing all the plant names Latin, Dutch and Malay/Javanese, with reference to Linnaeus, the Malay/Javanese set in roman type. The volumes were printed at the presses of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Batavia on the island of Java (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de Radermacher (1741–1783), started as a Dutch merchant in service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and rapidly rose in position in the company. He was one of the founding members of Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen and a proponent of the establishment of the botanical gardens of Buitenzorg. With a tiny tear in the second leaf and a couple of minor spots, otherwise in very good condition and only slightly trimmed, but lacking pp. 85–102 of volume three. Leaves E1-E2 of the same volume are included twice. The spineof the wrappers is tattered and its foot completely gone. 60; 67, [1 blank], 88, 40; [4], 84 (lacking pp. 85–102), 42, [2], 70 pp. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 615; Stafleu & Cowan 8501 (2 copies, both incomplete); STCN (2 copies); WorldCat (3 copies). ☞ More on our website Garden architecture with 24 aquatint plates in their first printing and subtle publisher’s colouring, including early neo-Egyptian sphinxes 40. ROBERTSON, William. Desseins d’architecture, représentans des sièges de jardins, des portes de maisons de campagne, des entrées de parcs, des volières, des temples, . . . London, printed by A. Dulau & Co. and Leonardo Nardini, and sold by Rudolph Ackermann there and J.G. Beygang in Leipzig, 1800. Oblong Imperial 4° (28 × 38 cm). With 24 numbered aquatint plates, subtly coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 7950 First edition of a beautiful series of aquatints with plans, elevations and cross-sections of garden architecture, published simultaneously in both an English and the present French edition. Most copies of the English edition are later reissues with the plates reprinted from the original copperplates ca. 1816 or ca. 1822, while at least the present copy of the French edition has the plates in the original printing, giving the best possible images. The beautiful designs, by William Robertson, show benches, gates, pavilions, bridges, boat houses, temples, mausoleums, aviaries, arbours, bath houses, etc., all intended for gardens and parks and sometimes shown in a setting with trees, ponds, etc. They still reflect the neo-classical styles of the time and the influence of the 18th-century archaeological excava- tions at Herculaneum and Pompeii, but they already presage what was to become known in England as the Regency style. The two sphinxes on the bridge in plate 23 are a very early example of Egyptian revival. Fine copy with only an occasional minor spot or small stain and nearly untrimmed, with many deckles intact. Binding slightly rubbed and spine and corners worn. [4 incl. 2 blank], 24 pp. plus plates. Berlin Kat. 3430; ESTC T165019 (4 copies); cf. Abbey, Life in England, 63; BAL 2803; not in Springer. ☞ More on our website Antidotes for snake and scorpiobites 41. SADA, A. Flore medicale comprenant les éléments botaniques, probriétés et usages des plantes. 1er & 2me fascicule. Pondichéry, Imprimerie Rattina Modéliar, 1891. 2 (of 5) volumes. 8°. Original green and red wrappers. € 1950 Two very rare treatises on the medical properties of the lawsonia – alba plant (henna) and aris- tolochia indica plant (= birthwort), including a list of plants that can serve as antidotes for snake and scorpion poison, with the Latin plant names and concordant Tamil names (set in Tamil Indian type), written by A. Sada (= Sadasswanaiker), shopkeeper at the colonial garden at Pondichéry, India. Small tear in title-page of vol.1 and lower left corner of front wrapper of vol. 2 slightly damaged, otherwise a fine set. 23; 26 pp. Bradley bibliography, III, p. 92 (fascicule 1 only); not in Stafleu & Cowan. ☞ More on our website Salm’s very rare first listing of succulents 42. SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Liste des plantes grasses, cultivées dans les jardins de M. le Comte de Salm, à Dyck. [Schloss Dyck, near Düsseldorf, 1809]. 4°. Unbound. € 250 Salm’s very rare first listing of succulents printed in 1809. Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (1773–1861) started collecting succulents at Schloss Dyck in 1800 after consorting with the leading French botanists in Paris and took lessons in paintings from Redouté after he saw the illustrations Redouté made for Candolle’s Plantarum succulentarum historia. The present first listing of succulents was a short pamphlet printed in 1809, the next listing was published in 1816 and was followed by a more regular publication of catalogues printed in very small numbers. They acted as “exchange lists with the botanical gardens and private collectors with whom Salm-Dyck exchanged specimens” (Rowley). After his death in 1861 the collections at Schloss Dyck soon started to break-up. The herbarium was the first to go, but his unrivalled succulent collection survived until the First World War. What was left of his magnificent library was auctioned in 1992–1993. “Only then did the extent of the loss become apparent: in addition to Salm-Dyck’s manuscripts, notebooks and fine paintings [...] there were several editions of his garden catalogue unrecorded by Pritzel, Stafleu & Cowan and other recognised bibliographies, and unseen by succulentists in the never-ending search for prior publication of names and dates of introduction of new species” (Rowley). Very good copy. 4 pp. Rowley, “Salm-Dyck’s Catalogues”, in: Taxon vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 845–851; KVK/WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Kew Gardens on-line Cat. (photocopy only); not in Stafleu & Cowan. ☞ More on our website Excellent study of a red algae genus 43. SIRODOT, Simon. Les batrachospermes. Organisation, fonctions, développement, classification. Paris, G. Masson, 1884. Folio. With 411 engraved figures on 50 plates, containing 77 coloured figures. Original pressed cloth, spine with gilt lettering. € 1250 Fundamental study, based on the author’s own observations since 1867. Sirodot also produced some of the drawings for the illustrations. In a very lively style, he first gives some general considerations on physiology and histology, and consequently describes the families of the Batrachosperms. Water damage on front cover; otherwise a fine copy, with clean plates. (69), 299, (101, 51 blank) pp. BMC NH, p. 1933; Junk, Bibl. Botanica, 2987; Nissen, BBI 1852. ☞ More on our website From a series of “the finest engravings of flowers ever made” by the teacher of Redouté 44. SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Souci des jardins. Calendula officinalis. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d’après nature,… Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures]. [Paris, 1799–1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 × 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Calendula officinalis showing two branches with seven flowers and buds in various stages, signed “P.F. Le Grand sculp.” In passepartout. € 2750 Magnificent illustration of a Calendula officinalis, commonly known as a pot marigold, printed in colour and delicately finished by hand. This flowering plant is probably native to southern Europe, but also found further north in Europe and elsewhere in warm temperate regions. It is originally part of a series of flower prints by Gerard van Spaendonck, the only engraved work published during his lifetime, “entitled Fleurs dessinées d’après Nature, which contains twenty-four magnificent drawings, brilliantly interpreted in stipple by P.F. Le Grand and other engravers. These are probably the finest engravings of flowers ever made” (Blunt) and “they are among the most breath-taking series of plates in the [Hunt] library” (Hunt). The series was originally published in 6 parts with 4 plates and available printed in black, printed in colour, or (as in the present case) printed in colour and finished by hand. Gerard van Spaendonck (1746–1822) was a proponent of the Dutch school of floral painting. He singlehandedly transformed the genre of flower painting in France, where he managed to unite the realism of the Dutch school with the suave elegance of the French school. In 1780 he became Professeur de Peinture de Fleurs at the Jardin des Plantes. Among his many pupils was Pierre Joseph Redouté. A few minor spots and a couple minor restorations along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Van Boven & Segal, Gerard & Cornelis van Spaendonck, pp. 178–184, no. 13a; for the series: Blunt, pp. 175–176; Hunt 673 note; cf. An Oak Spring flora 58, 92 etc. ☞ More on our website An ode to old monumental trees 45. STRUTT, James George. Sylva Britannica; or portraits of forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty. London, published for the author by Longman, Rees, et al. (colophon: London, printed by A.J. Valpy), n.d. [preface: 1830]. 4°. With an etched title vignette and 49 plates on china paper by J.G. Strutt. Later blind-tooled half goatskin,, marbled sides, black spine-label, new endpapers. € 450 Quarto edition of Strutt’s Sylva Brittanica, which was also printed in folio and octavo. Most of the text is confined to English trees, but pages 128–151 cover Scottisch trees with it’s own divisional title Sylva Scotica. Strutts book is known for its portraits of forest trees, which said to be “drawn from nature”. In the 49 plates on china paper he depicts old patrician trees like the oak, the elm, the chestnut, the maple and the cedar, and also gives an extensive description of these trees. Slightly foxed, mostly affecting the plates. Upper left corner and lower margin in the last part of the book waterstained. Spine faded. Still quite a good copy, complete with all the plates. VIII, 151 pp. Jackson, p. 245; Nissen, BBI 1907; cf. Pritzel 9016. ☞ More on our website One of the most voluminous herbals ever printed, with over 2400 woodcut illustrations 46. TABERNAEMONTANUS, Jacobus Theodorus. [Engraved general title-page:] New vollkommen Kräuter-Buch, darinnen uber 3000. Kräuter, mit schönen und kunstlichen Figuren, … [Letterpress title-page:] New vollkommenlich Kräuter-Buch, … Basel, Jacob Werenfels for Johann Königs, 1664. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a general engraved title-page (a letterpress title in richly engraved borders), 3 letterpress part-titles, and more than 2400 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin. € 4500 Newly enlarged edition of one of the most voluminous herbals ever printed, containing over 2400 woodcut illustrations. It was much used by pharmacists, physicians and botanists, and Linnaeus owned a copy of the present edition. Jacob Theodor (1520–1590), better known as Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus, had been a pupil of Otto Brunfels as a boy and afterwards worked as an assistant to Hieronymus Bock. He studied medicine in France and worked as city physician in Worms before he finally became court physician to the elector in Heidelberg and to the bishop of Speyer. He spent all his time gathering material and working on the present herbal. It was first published in two volumes in 1588–1591, after Tabernaemontanus had worked on it for 36 years, but he would die before the publication of the second volume. It was followed in 1613 by a new edition enlarged by the famous physician and botanist Caspar Bauhin, and with no important revisions again in 1625. The present edition was further enlarged and revised by Bauhin’s grandson Hieronymus. Another edition would be published in 1687 and the last appeared as late as 1731. Except for Thomas Johnson’s enlarged edition of Gerard’s herbal it is the bulkiest herbal ever printed. With a stain in the centre of the engraved title- page (possibly resulting from an early removal of a bookplate from its verso), some tiny wormholes in the first few leaves and some occasional minor browning, but otherwise internally in very good condition. Binding worn along the extremities and lacking its ties, but structurally sound and with nearly all tooling still clear. [16], 663, [1 blank]; [4], 665–1316; 1317–1529, [1 blank], [132], [2 blank] pp. Hagelin, Materia medica (1997), p. 122; Krivatsy 11777; Nissen, BBI 1931 note; VD17 39:125471N; cf. Arber, p. 76. ☞ More on our website With a map of the island and a folding plan of the city of Funchal 47. TAYLOR, Ellen M. Madeira: Its scenery and how to see it. With letters of a year’s residence, and lists of the trees, flowers, ferns, and seaweeds. London, Edward Stanford, 1882. 8°. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, a lithographed folding map of the island of Madeira and a lithographed folding plan of the city of Funchal. Also with a publisher’s advertisement at the end with “books useful for visitors to Madeira” from the publisher Trübner and Co., London. Original publisher’s black – and gold-blocked green cloth. € 500 First edition of a description of the island of Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean. With a section on the trees, fruits, flowers and ferns found on the island, as mentioned in the title, on pp. 164–181. A second edition was published in 1889. A few occasional spots and a tear in the fold of the plan, otherwise a good copy. XVI, 261, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Arnold Arboretum, p. 680. ☞ More on our website 12 views of the gardens at Beloeil: “the principal example in Belgium of the classical French style” 48. VASSE, Jacques-Abraham-Antoine. Souvenir de Beloeil, dédié à son Altesse Sérénissime la Princesse de Ligne, née Princesse Lubomirska. Brussels, Deltombe, 1853. Oblong 1° (34 × 50.5 cm). With 12 double-tinted lithographed plates (each ca. 24 × 32 cm), by Van der Heecht, Gerlier and Gratry after drawings by Antoine Vasse (11) and Van der Heecht (1) and printed by J. Lots. Contemporary brown half sheepskin. € 3000 Very rare first and only edition of an attractive suite of lithographs, limited to 150 copies, of the gardens at Beloeil, “the principal example in Belgium of the classical French style”. “It was not until the mid-18th century, at Beloeil, that the French classical garden finally gained a firm hold in the Belgian provinces … the present gardens are the result of rearrangement made for the most part in the mid-18th century under Prince Claude-Lamoral II de Ligne, assisted principally by the French architect Jean-Baptiste Bergé...” (Oxford companion to gardens). The suite is preceded by letterpress text, including a dedicatory poem to the Princess de Ligne whose husband, Prince Eugène had commissioned the most recent additions to the gardens, which included an orangery and rustic temple. This poem is followed by three parts describing the estate, describing the history of the grounds and castle and presenting a brief history of the family respectively. Some minor stains on the first two pages and a few minor spots throughout, otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed along the extremities and spine damaged. [8], 17, [1 blank] pp. text De Ganay 249; Oxford companion to gardens, pp. 47–52; WorldCat (3 copies). ☞ More on our website Important illustrated account on freshwater algae 49. VAUCHER, Jean-Pierre Etienne. Histoire des conferves d’eau douce, contenant eurs différens modes de reproduction, et la description de leurs principals espèces, suivie de l’histoire des trémelles et des ulves d’eau douce. Genève, J.J. Paschoud, l’an XI – 1803. 4°. With 17 numbered full-page engraved plates of Genres, Ectospermes, Conjuguées, Hydrodictye, Polyspermes, Batrachospermes, Proliferes, Oscillatoires, Nostocs, and Ulves. Contemporary half brown morocco. € 650 First and only edition of an important protozoological, algological account on green freshwater algae by the Professor of zoology at the Geneva University Jean-Pierre Vaucher (1763–1841). In this work Vaucher “was far in advance of its time, called conjugation distinctly a sexual process; the optical means at his disposal did not enable him to observe the fertilization in Vaucheria (Ectosperma)” (Sachs). With the binding somewhat worn and a stain on the spine title; otherwise in good condition. [2], XV, 286, [2]. Nissen, BBI, no. 2042; Pritzel, 9705; Sachs, p. 207. ☞ More on our website Fresh-water algae in North America 50. WOOD, Horatio C., Jr. A contribution to the history of the fresh-water algae of North America. Washington, 1871. 4°. With 21 partly coloured lithographs. Modern green cloth. € 250 First edition of a work on fresh-water algae in North America by the American physician and botanist Horatio C. Wood jr. (1841–1920). “The great drawback to the investigation on these plants has been the want of accessible books upon them. In the English there is no general work of value …” (p. 1). Wood sets out three different classes of fresh-water algae, with their different orders and families, and describes the individual algae’s cells, size, colours, and where they can be found, sometimes mentioning very exact spots in North America. With stamp. Slightly browned, otherwise in very good condition. VIII, 262 pp. Stafleu & Cowan 18.240. ☞ More on our website More books, drawings, photographs, manuscripts and prints related to botany available at our websites:

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