Dutch School, 18th century An album of original botanical drawings. [The Netherlands: circa 1720-1740]. 2° (325 x 200mm. and smaller). 213 leaves including 6 blanks. 209 original botanical drawings on 207 leaves (66 in pen, ink and watercolour, 143 in pen and ink) each with manuscript pre-Linnean botanical description in Latin in a single hand, most with the printed source from which the drawings were adapted also noted. Contemporary Dutch red sheep-backed marbled boards (light scuffing, extremities bumped). Provenance : R.J. Schierbeck (sale, 30 March 1846, lot 43); L. Ali Cohen (doctor and bacteriologist, various inscriptions, one noting the purchace of the album at Schierbeck sale, dated Groningen 10 April 1846, another undated presenting the album to:); Hermann Christian van Hall (1801-1874, botanist); S. Garside (ink-stamp). A RARE AND FINE PRE-LINNEAN ALBUM FROM THE LIBRARY OF AN UNIDENTIFIED BOTANIST. The botanist appears to have assembled the album in two stages. The first stage is represented by the group of 63 mounted 4° format leaves (each 212 x 163mm. approximately), the majority with drawings from the first volume of Louis Feuillee's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites... sur les cotes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale published in 1714. The remaining botanical plates (not represented here) were published in the third volume which appeared in 1724. 58 of the 64 drawings in this section are coloured. The remainder of the drawings on the folio format leaves are drawn from a wide variety of sources, the latest of which is probably 1739: Jakob Breyn's Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum... . Other sources include images from the work of Hermann Boerhaave, William Dampier, Caspar Commelin, Engelbert Kaempfer, Johann Volckamer and Abraham Munting. The majority of the plants depicted would have been exotics at the time and include examples from 'New Holland' (?Australia), Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Central and South America (including Chile and Brazil).
Dutch School, 18th century An album of original botanical drawings. [The Netherlands: circa 1720-1740]. 2° (325 x 200mm. and smaller). 213 leaves including 6 blanks. 209 original botanical drawings on 207 leaves (66 in pen, ink and watercolour, 143 in pen and ink) each with manuscript pre-Linnean botanical description in Latin in a single hand, most with the printed source from which the drawings were adapted also noted. Contemporary Dutch red sheep-backed marbled boards (light scuffing, extremities bumped). Provenance : R.J. Schierbeck (sale, 30 March 1846, lot 43); L. Ali Cohen (doctor and bacteriologist, various inscriptions, one noting the purchace of the album at Schierbeck sale, dated Groningen 10 April 1846, another undated presenting the album to:); Hermann Christian van Hall (1801-1874, botanist); S. Garside (ink-stamp). A RARE AND FINE PRE-LINNEAN ALBUM FROM THE LIBRARY OF AN UNIDENTIFIED BOTANIST. The botanist appears to have assembled the album in two stages. The first stage is represented by the group of 63 mounted 4° format leaves (each 212 x 163mm. approximately), the majority with drawings from the first volume of Louis Feuillee's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites... sur les cotes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale published in 1714. The remaining botanical plates (not represented here) were published in the third volume which appeared in 1724. 58 of the 64 drawings in this section are coloured. The remainder of the drawings on the folio format leaves are drawn from a wide variety of sources, the latest of which is probably 1739: Jakob Breyn's Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum... . Other sources include images from the work of Hermann Boerhaave, William Dampier, Caspar Commelin, Engelbert Kaempfer, Johann Volckamer and Abraham Munting. The majority of the plants depicted would have been exotics at the time and include examples from 'New Holland' (?Australia), Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Central and South America (including Chile and Brazil).
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