PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ANITA PEEK GILGER, M.D.
VOLCKAMER, Johann Georg (1662-1744). Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensi tam sponte nascentium, quam exoticarum ... Nuremberg: Michaell, 1700.
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VOLCKAMER, Johann Georg (1662-1744). Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensi tam sponte nascentium, quam exoticarum ... Nuremberg: Michaell, 1700.
4o (198 x 160 mm). 25 engraved plates (light browing and staining throughout, old library stamp cut from title and first leaf). Contemporary vellum upper cover lettered "IPARAL" and dated 1701. Provenance: purchased from Quaritch.
FIRST EDITION of this rare and early German local flora, which also includes many plants from America, Africa and the Orient. "At the turn of the century Johann Georg Volckamer (1662-1744), a wealthy merchant of Nuremberg with a fine garden, produced his Flora Noribergensis, Nuremberg 1700, with 25 illustrations 16 of which depict Cape plants; among them is probably the first illustration of the large and difficult genus, Hermannia" (Gunn and Codd Botanical exploration of Southern Africa, p. 62). Nissen BBI 2079.
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FIRST EDITION of this rare and early German local flora, which also includes many plants from America, Africa and the Orient. "At the turn of the century Johann Georg Volckamer (1662-1744), a wealthy merchant of Nuremberg with a fine garden, produced his Flora Noribergensis, Nuremberg 1700, with 25 illustrations 16 of which depict Cape plants; among them is probably the first illustration of the large and difficult genus, Hermannia" (Gunn and Codd Botanical exploration of Southern Africa, p. 62). Nissen BBI 2079.