2390 - 2685 BOTANY, GARDENS AND GARDENING, HUSBANDRY - The Collection of Jan Meemelink
- Hinges broken but holding on cords; occas. pinkish stain in outer blank margin. Binding sl. rubbed.
= Nissen BBI 404. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
= Facsimile of the Fungorum in Pannoniis observatorum brevis Historia. "Cet ouvrage est le fondement de la Mycologie Hongroise et le premier essai scientifique concernant la Mycologie."
- A few lvs. trifle waterst. in blank lower margin; occas. dustsoiling. Spine-ends (sl.) worn; upper joint weak; corners showing; part of ties broken. Very fine copy.
= Very rare. Nissen, BBI 1892; Pritzel 8947; Ferro 72a; Landwehr 20; Hunt 341: "First edition of the first separate work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- Very fine copy, w. only a few minor blemishes: sm. libr. stamp on first free endpaper and title-p.; ticket of the Seminarium Culemburgensis on upper pastedown, otherwise contents entirely clean and fine. Paper over covers worn.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 29; Dunthorne 215; Nissen, BBI 2219; Hunt 733: "Nederlandsch Bloemwerk is a symbol and representation of the ascendancy of the Dutch nurseryman, the developer and disperser of tulips, hyacinths, and auriculas at the end of the eighteenth century. At the same time it takes a backward glance at the art of the gardener and of the flower-painter of a century and a half earlier, the golden age of Tulipomania (...)". The plates are usually assigned to Paul Theodor van Brussel (mainly on the basis of his signature on the title-p.). He closely followed the plates by Robert Nicolas in several of his designs. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- Both vols. sl. foxed, mostly endpapers; stamp of Landbouwschool Wageningen on page 117 in 1st vol. and final endpaper 2nd vol. Covers sl. soiled; spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Nissen, BBI 1474. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- Plate vols. yellowed throughout; partly foxed (occas. heavily foxed or browned); 2 plates restored tear in outer margin; 1 plate outer margin strengthened; supplement plate vol. in sl. better condition; all vols. owner's entry ("W. Lehmann") on title-p. All vols. spine restored w. use of orig. backstrip; paper over covers sl. rubbed.
= The supplement vol. contains the accomp. textleaves to the plates; this set contains 5 extra handcol. cancelled plates. Nissen, BBI 1442; Pritzel 6662; Sotheby's, Magnificent Botanical Books 256. The author was inspector of the Leyden Botanic Garden and Director of the Bonn University Botanic Garden. Complete set, incl. the rare supplement containing 120 plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- All vols. (sl.) foxed; two vols. hinges weak. Bindings rubbed, mostly along extremities.
= Cf. Waller 844.
BOUND WITH: Vermeerdert en Vernieuwd Register Van meest alle de Soorten van Peeren en Appelen, Met aantooning, op welke tyd dat yder in hun Soort volkoomen regt Ryp zyn. Als mede een Aanteekening van de soorten van Wyngaarden. Kerssen. Haasenooten, Persikken (...) Als mede Bloemboomen, boomgewassen, of Wilde Plantagie (...) Strekkende tot Saamenhang en Byvoegzel aan de Nieuwe en Naauwkeurige Neederlandse Hovenier. Ibid., idem, 1721, 2nd enl. ed., (8),54,(2)p., engr. title-vignette. - AND WITH: Oeffening en regte behandeling Aangaande het Bebouwen der Moes-Tuynen, Onderwijzende de Regte Culture van alle de Moes-Planten Welke tot de Keuken behooren; Als meede om zommige derselve in een Vroeger Tijd te konnen hebben (...). Ibid., idem, 1721, 2nd ed., (8),120p., engr. title-vignette.[*]
- Yellowed/ browned almost throughout; one plate and one quire loose(ning); inner blank margin wormholed at the beginning. A few wormholes in vellum frontcover.
- Title-p. and final 3 leaves sl. dam./ frayed along top margin; occas. (sl.) browned/ fingersoiled in margins; scattered contemp./ sl. later annots.; later endpapers. Joints and backstrip sl. worn; spine-ends sl. dam.; leather partly scarred from mottling.
= The rare first edition. Nissen, BBI suppl. 1458n; Pritzel 6785; Wittop Koning p.151/152. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVII.
- Title-p. sl. waterstained and fingersoiled; partly sl. dogeared; bookblock partly rubbed along extremities; rebound (too tightly) in contemp. vellum binding which is wormholed (only affecting the vellum and the endpapers); vellum browned.
=The rare first edition. Nissen, BBI suppl. 1458n; Pritzel 6785; Wittop Koning p.151/152.
- Title-p. restored (tear) and lacking lower outer corner restored w. manuscript addition to image and text; occas. sl. foxed; scattered contemp. annots. in pen and ink in text.
= The rare first edition. Nissen, BBI suppl. 1458n; Pritzel 6785; Wittop Koning p.151/152.
- Sl. (finger)soiled; some lvs. waterstained in margin or upper outer corner. Vellum soiled; a few chafed spots.
= Pritzel 6785; Nissen, BBI 1458n (ed. 1670); Hunt 364 (ed. 1682). Rare early edition of this popular herbal, first published in 1670 in 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. A fine copy.
= Nissen, BBI suppl. 1458n; Pritzel 6785 (ed. 1670); Wittop Koning p.151/152. Title w. engr. of an herb shop by C. PLOOS VAN AMSTEL after G. VAN DEN EECKHOUT (Hollstein 75; Wittop Koning p.151).
- New endpapers; first page owner's entry in lower margin; upper blank margin w. horizontal sm. stain throughout.
= Pritzel 6802.
- Library stamps on first blank; wormhole in lower margin throughout. Top of spine restored.
= Rare edition. Cf. Hunt 406, listing the first English edition, published in 1703. "The original Dutch edition was De nieuwe Nederlandse Bloem-Hof (Leyden, 1700) (...) and the book reached its seventh edition in 1792. A second English edition appeared in 1711, a French edition at Leyden in 1714, and four German editions by 1728." (Hunt).
- Trifle soiled; lower pastedown browned. Binding worn; covers soiled.
- Vaguely waterst. at the end. Boards trifle wrinkled.
= Cf. Hunt 406, listing the first English edition, published in 1703. "The original Dutch edition was De nieuwe Nederlandse Bloem-Hof (Leyden, 1700) (...) and the book reached its seventh edition in 1792. A second English edition appeared in 1711, a French edition at Leyden in 1714, and four German editions by 1728." (Hunt).
- Sm. wormhole in inner margin; first textleaf outer upper corner torn off; trifle soiled (incl. vellum), otherwise fine.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Register van alle de Soorten der voornaamste vrugten (...) Dito een Register van alle de Saaden, behoorende tot de Moestuinery. Ibid., idem, 1703, (6),55p.
= On both titles: Oldenburger-Ebbers/ Stehouwer p.3: "Dit werk werd tot in de negentiende eeuw veelvuldig door tuinliefhebbers gebruikt en had grote invloed op de buitenlandse horticultuur". On the author Paradisus Batavus p.59.
- Ex library copy, w. stamps on first few lvs.; lacks frontisp.; hinges weak; sl. foxed.
= Not in Nissen or Pritzel; cf. Hunt 406, listing the first English edition, published in 1703. "The original Dutch edition was De nieuwe Nederlandse Bloem-Hof (Leyden, 1700) (...) and the book reached its seventh edition in 1792. A second English edition appeared in 1711, a French edition at Leyden in 1714, and four German editions by 1728." (Hunt). All editions are very rare, this edition not in JAP (2 copies in NCC). This edition contains a chapter on melons not present in the 1700-edition.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed, otherwise a very fine copy.
= Springer p.68. Rare, the final 60 plates taken from the 1802 edition of Magazijn van Tuin-Sieraden by G. van Laar. Contains useful plates and plans with garden designs (w. paths, bridges and ponds) and i.a. examples of garden furniture, fences and summer- and ice-houses.