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RHEEDE TOT DRAAKESTEIN, Hendrik Adriaan van. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens Regni Malabarici apud Indos celeberrimi omnis generis plantas rariores. Amsterdam: J.van Someren, J.van Dyck and T.Boom, 1678-1703.
12 volumes, 2° (380 x 240mm.). Engraved frontispieces to volumes I and III, titles with woodcut printers device, 793 engraved plates only on 787 leaves by B. Stoopendael after M.A. St. Joseph, most double-page, text in Latin, plate captions in Sanskrit, Arabic, Malay and Latin, 3 engraved illustrations. (Lacking plate 22 in volume 8, without the portrait as described in the de Belder copy, occasional minor offsetting.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt, fawn morocco lettering pieces, marbled edges (foot of spine on volume X slightly chipped with small crack to upper joint). Nissen BBI 1625; Pritzel 7585; together with:
COMMELIN, Caspar. Flora Malabarica sive Horti Malabarici catalogus exhibens omnium eiusdem plantarum nomina. Leiden: F. Haaringh, 1696. 2° (375 230mm.). 8,71pp. text. Imitation companion calf to Hortus Indicus. Provenance: British Museum (duplicate sale 1831 with stamps). Cf. Pritzel 1834.
FIRST EDITION of the FIRST COMPREHENSIVE FLORA OF THE EAST INDIES. Rheede was the Dutch colonial Governor of Malabar in South West India, and as an enthusiastic botanist collected specimens and drawings of the native plants. These were drawn up and engraved in Amsterdam. (13)
12 volumes, 2° (380 x 240mm.). Engraved frontispieces to volumes I and III, titles with woodcut printers device, 793 engraved plates only on 787 leaves by B. Stoopendael after M.A. St. Joseph, most double-page, text in Latin, plate captions in Sanskrit, Arabic, Malay and Latin, 3 engraved illustrations. (Lacking plate 22 in volume 8, without the portrait as described in the de Belder copy, occasional minor offsetting.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt, fawn morocco lettering pieces, marbled edges (foot of spine on volume X slightly chipped with small crack to upper joint). Nissen BBI 1625; Pritzel 7585; together with:
COMMELIN, Caspar. Flora Malabarica sive Horti Malabarici catalogus exhibens omnium eiusdem plantarum nomina. Leiden: F. Haaringh, 1696. 2° (375 230mm.). 8,71pp. text. Imitation companion calf to Hortus Indicus. Provenance: British Museum (duplicate sale 1831 with stamps). Cf. Pritzel 1834.
FIRST EDITION of the FIRST COMPREHENSIVE FLORA OF THE EAST INDIES. Rheede was the Dutch colonial Governor of Malabar in South West India, and as an enthusiastic botanist collected specimens and drawings of the native plants. These were drawn up and engraved in Amsterdam. (13)