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Flora Sinensis, Fructus Floresque Humillime Porrigens ... Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae. Vienna: Matthaeus Rictius, 1656. 2 (309 x 213mm). Collation: a1 b-c2 e-f2 A-L2 M2 (M1+) N2 [fully signed; misprinting e1 as 'd' and e2 as 'e'], 36 leaves with 23 ENGRAVED PLATES WITH FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING, 21 plates with text on verso, unsigned leaf between M1 and M2 with plate recto and verso. (Short tear to upper corner of F2 affecting corner of plate lacking gathering d2.) 18th-century mottled sheep, spine gilt in six compartments (some small areas of loss to covers, some olf worming to head and foot of spine).
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MICHAEL BOYM (1612-1659)
Flora Sinensis, Fructus Floresque Humillime Porrigens ... Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae. Vienna: Matthaeus Rictius, 1656. 2 (309 x 213mm). Collation: a1 b-c2 e-f2 A-L2 M2 (M1+) N2 [fully signed; misprinting e1 as 'd' and e2 as 'e'], 36 leaves with 23 ENGRAVED PLATES WITH FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING, 21 plates with text on verso, unsigned leaf between M1 and M2 with plate recto and verso. (Short tear to upper corner of F2 affecting corner of plate lacking gathering d2.) 18th-century mottled sheep, spine gilt in six compartments (some small areas of loss to covers, some olf worming to head and foot of spine).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN WORKS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CHINA AND PROBABLY THE RAREST OF ALL NATURAL HISTORY WORKS ON ASIA. There are 17 botanical and 5 zoological plates, and one of the Nestorian stele, each with the names of the species in Chinese and Latin. The work was published uncoloured and copies with contemporary hand-colouring are of the greatest rarity (see Walravens: China Illustrata 190). The botanical plates cover the cultivated fruits indigenous to south-eastern China and include papaya, banana, lychee, pineapple, mango, and ginger. The illustration of the rhubarb is probably the first such representation of the plant in a book. The zoological plates depict birds, snake, turtle, hippopotamus, and leopard. The gathering d2 is missing from this copy. The two leaves contained a poem by Boym, which were possibly added during the printing of the preliminary pages. Evidence that the poem was not conceived for the original text can be seen in that the catchword on c2 follows to e2.
Father Michael Boym SJ, Jesuit missionary, was born in Lwow, Poland in 1612. In 1643 he went to China where he became one of the most successful missionary scientists. Securing the confidence of the Chinese court he was sent as a Chinese ambassador to Venice and Rome between 1652 and 1656. He died in 1659 in the province of Kuang si. Apart from his botanical work Boym was an excellent cartographer; the draft of his projected atlas of China is now in the Vatican Library, but Father Boym's concern was to introduce Chinese science to Europe. 'This is the first European publication on Chinese plants' (Merril & Walker. Bibliography of Eastern Asiatic Botany.) Bretschneider in 1881 wrote: 'The original work of Boym's Flora Sinensis in Latin is a very book', Cordier states that it is 'Extrmement rare', and Ralf Libers writing in Aus Dem Antiquariat noted that 'Das Werk, heute ausserordentlich selten, war enorm erfolgreich'. Not in the Plesch or De Belder collections. Nissen BBI 220; Hunt 265; Cordier 442; Sommervogel II 70; Bretschneider, Early European Researches pp. 21-24, and idem, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China pp. 13-14; Ralf Liebers, China illustrata - China in der europischen Literatur des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Zue Ausstellung in Wolfenbttel in Aus Dem Antiquariat, 8, 1987, pp. 325-322.
[With] BOYM, Michael. Briefve relation de la Chine, et de la notable conversion des Personnes Royales de cet Estat from Athanasius Kircer's China Monumentis, 1667. 2 (329 x 226mm). Collation: a-c4 d4 (-D4), 15 leaves and 4 double page engraved plates of fruit and birds. Stitched with old glue along hinge. An interesting extract of a later printing of Boym's text and some of the illustrations from Flora Sinensis. 'Zahlreiche naturkundliche und Chinabcher haben Boyms Beitrge nachgedruckt oder redaktionell bercksichtigt' (Liebers, ibid., p. 331). (2)
Flora Sinensis, Fructus Floresque Humillime Porrigens ... Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae. Vienna: Matthaeus Rictius, 1656. 2 (309 x 213mm). Collation: a
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN WORKS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CHINA AND PROBABLY THE RAREST OF ALL NATURAL HISTORY WORKS ON ASIA. There are 17 botanical and 5 zoological plates, and one of the Nestorian stele, each with the names of the species in Chinese and Latin. The work was published uncoloured and copies with contemporary hand-colouring are of the greatest rarity (see Walravens: China Illustrata 190). The botanical plates cover the cultivated fruits indigenous to south-eastern China and include papaya, banana, lychee, pineapple, mango, and ginger. The illustration of the rhubarb is probably the first such representation of the plant in a book. The zoological plates depict birds, snake, turtle, hippopotamus, and leopard. The gathering d
Father Michael Boym SJ, Jesuit missionary, was born in Lwow, Poland in 1612. In 1643 he went to China where he became one of the most successful missionary scientists. Securing the confidence of the Chinese court he was sent as a Chinese ambassador to Venice and Rome between 1652 and 1656. He died in 1659 in the province of Kuang si. Apart from his botanical work Boym was an excellent cartographer; the draft of his projected atlas of China is now in the Vatican Library, but Father Boym's concern was to introduce Chinese science to Europe. 'This is the first European publication on Chinese plants' (Merril & Walker. Bibliography of Eastern Asiatic Botany.) Bretschneider in 1881 wrote: 'The original work of Boym's Flora Sinensis in Latin is a very book', Cordier states that it is 'Extrmement rare', and Ralf Libers writing in Aus Dem Antiquariat noted that 'Das Werk, heute ausserordentlich selten, war enorm erfolgreich'. Not in the Plesch or De Belder collections. Nissen BBI 220; Hunt 265; Cordier 442; Sommervogel II 70; Bretschneider, Early European Researches pp. 21-24, and idem, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China pp. 13-14; Ralf Liebers, China illustrata - China in der europischen Literatur des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Zue Ausstellung in Wolfenbttel in Aus Dem Antiquariat, 8, 1987, pp. 325-322.
[With] BOYM, Michael. Briefve relation de la Chine, et de la notable conversion des Personnes Royales de cet Estat from Athanasius Kircer's China Monumentis, 1667. 2 (329 x 226mm). Collation: a-c