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COLLAERT, ADRIAEN. Florilegium ab Hadriano Collaert caelatum, et a Philip. Galleo editum. [Antwerp:] Philip Galle, [c. 1590?].
Small 4to, 202 x 158 mm., modern red panelled calf with gilt dentelle tooling in seventeenth-century style, g.e. by Devauchelle, minor old stains on title.
Engraved title and 23 plates numbered 3-23; title and second plate unnumbered (second plate illustrating the Song of Solomon with two lines of quotation beneath); plate 3 showing flowers in a vase; plates 4-24 showing scattered flowers.
One of the earliest botanical books with engraved plates. Hunt 159 ("Blunt says that the Collaert was the source of some of the snippets of flowers used by vande Pas in his Hortus Floridus, 1614 [1616]...See Plates XIV and XV."); Nissen BBI 383 (dating the work 1600); Pritzel 1803.
Small 4to, 202 x 158 mm., modern red panelled calf with gilt dentelle tooling in seventeenth-century style, g.e. by Devauchelle, minor old stains on title.
Engraved title and 23 plates numbered 3-23; title and second plate unnumbered (second plate illustrating the Song of Solomon with two lines of quotation beneath); plate 3 showing flowers in a vase; plates 4-24 showing scattered flowers.
One of the earliest botanical books with engraved plates. Hunt 159 ("Blunt says that the Collaert was the source of some of the snippets of flowers used by vande Pas in his Hortus Floridus, 1614 [1616]...See Plates XIV and XV."); Nissen BBI 383 (dating the work 1600); Pritzel 1803.