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SWEERT, Emanuel. Florilegium...tractans de variis floribus et aliis indicis plantis ad vivum delineatum in daubus partibus et quatuor linguis concinnatum. Frankfurt: A. Kempner, 1612-14
Two parts in one volume, 2° (397 x 250mm.). Engraved allegorical title, printed title to second part with woodcut printer's device, oval portrait of the author and 110 PLATES, ALL IN CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING, the title heightened with gold (title, portrait and first text leaf with small tears in lower margin repaired). Late Seventeenth Century green stained vellum wavy gilt flower, thistle and acorn border on sides within 3 small roll-tool outer borders, flat spine finely gilt with small tools including flower-heads, crowns and dots (recently rebacked with morocco preserving original backstrip, endpapers renewed)
First edition of part I, second edition part II. Emanuel Sweert was a Dutch florist, at one time employed as Praefectus of the gardens of Emperor Rudolf II at whose instigation the book was produced, although it is not known if Sweert was merely the editor or also responsible himself for the plates which are mostly copied from the Florilegium Novum, 1611, of Johann Theodor de Bry, who himself copied from Vallet. The book is actually a sale catalogue and, although the prices are not given, the reader is informed that the 560 plants depicted were for sale at the Frankfurt Fair. Nissen BBI 1920; Hunt 196
Two parts in one volume, 2° (397 x 250mm.). Engraved allegorical title, printed title to second part with woodcut printer's device, oval portrait of the author and 110 PLATES, ALL IN CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING, the title heightened with gold (title, portrait and first text leaf with small tears in lower margin repaired). Late Seventeenth Century green stained vellum wavy gilt flower, thistle and acorn border on sides within 3 small roll-tool outer borders, flat spine finely gilt with small tools including flower-heads, crowns and dots (recently rebacked with morocco preserving original backstrip, endpapers renewed)
First edition of part I, second edition part II. Emanuel Sweert was a Dutch florist, at one time employed as Praefectus of the gardens of Emperor Rudolf II at whose instigation the book was produced, although it is not known if Sweert was merely the editor or also responsible himself for the plates which are mostly copied from the Florilegium Novum, 1611, of Johann Theodor de Bry, who himself copied from Vallet. The book is actually a sale catalogue and, although the prices are not given, the reader is informed that the 560 plants depicted were for sale at the Frankfurt Fair. Nissen BBI 1920; Hunt 196