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PHYTOGRAPHIA CURIOSA EXHIBENS ARBORUM FRUTICUM HERBARU & FLORUM ICONES DUCENTIS & QUADRIGINTA QUINQUE TABULIS AD VIVUM DELINEATIS AC ARTISICIOSISSIME AERI INCISIS.

1713réf. C100263Amsterdam: Rod. & Gerh. Wetstein / Westenios 1713. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Latin edition second issue folio 394 x 242mm. letterpress title in red and black half-title engraved dedication leaf to Dr Benjamin Fagel incorporating his coat of arms additional engraved title with elaborate emblematic surround bound in as frontispiece 2 engraved headpieces second repeated once by J. Baptiste Adam after Jan Goeree woodcut initials and tailpiece 245 highly attractive engraved plates of plants all but one unsigned but some or all possibly by Joseph Mulder 5 plates with binomial classifications added in pencil in an eighteenth-century hand. Full contemporary brown calf with blind patterning spine with raised bands in seven compartments red morocco label to second compartment speckled edges minor worming at lower inner margin affecting approximately first quarter of textblock but away from plates and text which are unaffected emblematic frontispiece very slightly shaved at outer margin without loss later plates with slight browning and occasional marginal minor dampstaining. Munting's Phytographia Curiosa is the most extraordinary botanical work of the pre-Linnean period with ""illustrations that are remarkable for their elegance and originality"" Oak Spring Flora. The plates often feature architecture landscapes urns - with titles on flowing scrolls. This is the second issue of the Latin edition of the author's Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen 1696 based in part on his Waare Oeffning der Planten 1672. Abraham Munting ""was an eminent professor of botany and chemistry at the University of Groningen.he also founded one of the most extensive botanical gardens of the period known as the 'Paradise of Groningen' which he directed from 1658 up until his death in 1683. Munting wrote a number of works on medical-botanical topics but the present work.enjoyed particular success at least in part due to the novelty of the plates which in a radical departure from.the traditional florilegium presented its plant species against charming landscape backgrounds.The illustrations are remarkable for their elegance and originality."" Oak Spring Flora p. 174. Ownership signature William Beeston M.D. 1672-1732 physician botanist and founder of the Ipswich Garden: armorial bookplate of Doctor Coyte - Beeston's great-nephew Dr William Beeston Coyte 1740-1810 member of the Linnaean Society and author of Hortus Botanicus Gippovicensis 1796 an annotated catalogue of his great-uncle's botanic garden. Handsome sound clean copy very good indeed see full description Rod. & Gerh. Wetstein / Westenios hardcover

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Phytographia Curiosa Exhibens Arborum Fruticum Herbarum & Florum Icones.

réf. 99525Amsterdam Petrus de Coup 1727. . First Latin edition presumed third issue; two parts in one folio 39.2 x 25.4 cm; engraved title-page used here as a frontispiece and 245 engraved botanical plates inserted at rear with allegorical vignette on title-page and two engraved headpieces on ppiii and 25 by Goeree title-page printed in black and red lacking half-title and dedication leaf text somewhat toned frontispiece repaired at inner margin all inserted plates with small circular ink stamp of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society near the bottom their bookplate is present on the front pastedown plates twenty-five and twenty-six are trimmed smaller as most likely supplied some soiling and foxing to text and plates prominent damp staining on plates 144 to 245 plate 32 has small marginal repairs a few leaves with minor marginal worming plates 1 - 48 with neat ink captions in an unknown hand; nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards spine ruled in gilt in compartments black morocco lettering piece gilt edge wear to binding especially at spine and corners upper board detached lower board loose; xxvi 47 1 blank pp. First Latin edition presumed third issue. A good copy only sold with all faults. 'The illustrations are remarkable for their elegance and originality' Oak Spring Flora 45. This is perhaps the most handsome and influential botanical of its day with its near-dreamlike depiction of plants suspended above cityscapes and other backgrounds. Munting 1626-1683 was a Dutch botanist and botanical artist the son of Henricus Munting 1583-1658. He studied under his father and at the universities of Franeker Utrecht and Leiden also spending two years in France where he obtained an M.D. degree in Angers. Returning to Groningen in 1651 he joined the staff at the Rijkshogeschool Groningen which eventually became the University of Groningen. Here he taught for 24 years as professor of botany and chemistry. On his father's death he assumed management of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus from 1658 to 1683. His botanist friends sent him seeds from the Dutch East- and West Indies Africa and the Americas. His daughter Hester died after eating Deadly Nightshade from the Garden. Munting subsequently developed a particular interest in the medicinal uses of plants. The present work Munting's best known was first published in Dutch as Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardgewassen 1696. Illustrated were trees shrubs flowers and grasses of temperate zones with some tropical and subtropical plants that had been introduced to the Netherlands. Nissen BBI 1429; Hunt 404. Amsterdam, Petrus de Coup, 1727. hardcover

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