- Fine set. = Cf. Nissen 1033.
- Contents fine. Slightly rubbed along extremities/ covers.
= The first two works: Nissen, BBI 1078 and 1077 and Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 89 and 93. "A gardener's son from Hesse, Johann Hermann Knoop developed into the founder of descriptive pomology." (Pomona's Harvest p.279).
- Contents fine. Cornes sl, worn; sm. imperfections to paper over covers.
= On the first two works see: Nissen, BBI 1078 and 1077 and Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 89 and 93. "A gardener's son from Hesse, Johann Hermann Knoop developed into the founder of descriptive pomology." (Pomona's Harvest p.279). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
= Contents fine. The first two works: Nissen, BBI 1078 and 1077 and Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 89 and 93. "A gardener's son from Hesse, Johann Hermann Knoop developed into the founder of descriptive pomology." (Pomona's Harvest p.279).
- Lacks 12 plates and 8 textleaves. Occas. trifle foxed/ waterstained; plates in fine condition. Binding sl. worn; joints starting/ splitting; letterpiece sl. dam.
= Nissen, BBI 1102; Great Flower Books p.63; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 98; Pritzel 4872. One of the finest Dutch books on trees and shrubs, originally published in 21 parts.
- Some foxing. Lower joint and backcover sl. dam. at lower edge.
= Most editions have 12 plates. Nissen, BBI 1143 (other editions).
- Owner's annot. in pen and ink on first blanks. Spines sunned. Fine set.
- Contents very fine. Corners and joints trifle rubbed. A good/ fine set.
- Engr. title sl. dam. and strengthened in lower outer corner and upper inner corner and sl. waterstained in upper half; engr. title bound in too tightly; most leaves (partly sl.) waterstained in lower outer corner and partly also in upper corners/ upper margin (both partly affecting text); a few textleaves w. browned spots in text and tiny black spots in outer margin; blank margins of a few textleaves restored; one index leaf restored in margins and sl. creased (1x also stained); final 2 leaves dam. and restored in outer margin (w. loss of text and part of woodcuts); new endpapers. Vellum sl. stained; upper outer corner of frontcover restored.
= Nissen, BBI 1219; Pritzel 5548; Voet 1579. The first Dutch edition of this herbal, which is in all literature invariably described as very rare. The revised and augmented version of De Lobel's Plantarum seu stirpium historia, Antwerp 1576. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown and first free endpaper. Vol.1 one plate w. tear in upper blank margin; 2 plates sl. browned. Vol.2 two plates w. sm. holes; one plate sl. browned.
= Nissen, BBI 1291; Pritzel 5929. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Lacks the title-p. and lvs. 3 and 4; first 3 present lvs. lack portion lower of outer corner (restored); sl. yellowed/ browned; occas. fingersoiled; first part w. some sm. wormholes.
= The third German edition. Hunt I, 160; Pritzel 5990; Nissen, BBI 1311; Durling 3019.
- Lacks 1 vol.; occas. (sl). foxed. Spine-ends trifle rubbed; backcover of the 3rd vol. ink(?)stained. Good set.
= Nissen, BBI 1331.
- Corners sl. worn. Otherwise fine. = Nissen, BBI 1096.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. All vols. rebacked w. matching backstrip. = Nissen, BBI 1475.
AND the atlas only of the preceding work (91 plates, all but one handcol., loose as issued in orig. cl. portfolio, 4to. Plates trifle yellowed; corners of portfolio sl. worn; backstrip pasted over w. tape).
- Binding sl. worn/ rubbed along extremities.
= Atlas vol. only, published with the 2nd ed. of Oudemans' De Flora van Nederland (1872-1874). Nissen, BBI 1475.
AND 3 others, incl. VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX, Les fleurs de pleine terre comprenant la description et la culture des fleurs annuelles, bisannuelles, vivaces et bulbeuses de pleine terre (Paris, 1894, 4th ed., 7 (double-p.) (chromo)lithogr. plates, ±1600 woodengr. ills., contemp. gilt hmor., 4to. Cf. Nissen, BBI 2065).
- A few lvs. sl. frayed along edges. Binding dam. and stained. = Nissen, BBI 1477.
- Ex library copy w. (punched out) stamps on first and last few lvs. Spine worn.
= Nissen, BBI 2351.
- One plate loose. A good/ fine set. = Blunt p.236; cf. Nissen BBI, 1562.
- Second vol. first 3 lvs. (incl. frontisp. plate and title) loose.
= Nissen, BBI 1562; Sitwell/ Blunt, Great flower books 1700-1900, p.236. Not in Pritzel.
- First few leaves of vol. 2-4 sm. receding stain in blank left upper corner. Otherwise contents fine. Backstrips and corners sl. rubbed; 2 vols. top of spine sl. chipped. A good set.
= Nissen, BBI 1562; not in Pritzel.