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BURMAN, NICOLAAS LAURENS. Flora Indica: cuit accedit series zoophytorum indicorum, nec non prodromus florae capensis. Leiden: (C. Haek) and Amsterdam: (J. Schreuder), 1768, 4to, 254 x 210 mm., contemporary quarter calf, newly rebacked with old backstrip, covers rubbed. First Edition. 68 engraved folding plates by and after A. van der laan, numbered 1-67 and 21.* Nissen BBI 304; Pritzel 1396; Stafleu Linnaeus and the Linneans (Utrecht, 1971), pp. 169-170 ("of importance because at a relatively early date it gives an enumeration in the Linnaean style, of what was then known about the nomenclature and taxonomy of the flora of the Indies"); Stafleu & Cowan TL2 935. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- BURMAN, N.L. Specimen Botanicum de Geraniis. Leiden: T. Haak 1759. 4to, 237 x 184 mm., old marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. 3 folding engraved plates. Pritzel 1395; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 934. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- MUELLER, JOHANN GOTTHILF. Species Plantarum. Berlin: Christian Ludwig Kunst 1757. Folio, 406 x 246 mm., old half calf, upper cover detached. 10 uncolored engraved plates by C.B. Glassbach and N.F. Sauerbrey after J.B.G. Hopfer. Nissen BBI 1426; Pritzel 6522 (noting colored plates). KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- CRANTZ, HEINRICH JOHANN NEPOMUK VON. Classics umbelliferarum emendata. Leipzig: J.P. Kraus 1767. 8vo, 200 x 119 mm., late eighteenth-century red half morocco gilt and green boards, text and plates spotted. FIRST EDITION. 6 folding engraved pltes. Pritzel 19656; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1267 -- [Bound before:] CRANTZ, H.J.N. Classis cruciformium emendata. Leipzig: J.P. Kraus. 3 folding engraved plates. Pritzel 1958; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1269. Bibliothèque de la Pierrière; KKM/HSNY, bookplates -- HARTMANN, FRANS. XAVER. Primarum linearum institutionum botanicarum clarissimi viri Crantzii editio altera. Leipzig: J.P. Kraus 1767. 8vo, 219 x 140 mm., old speckled boards, uncut, rebacked with green paper, browned. Second Edition. 4 engraved plates by Aug. Cipps. Pritzel 3810; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2431. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (5)