Sweerts, Emanuel FLORILEGIUM AMPLISSIMUM ET SELECTISSIMUM, QUO NON, TANTUM VARIA DIVERSORUM FLORUM PRAESTANTISSIMORUM ET NUNQUAM ANTEA EXHIBITORUM GENERA, SED ET RARAE QUAMPLURIMAE INDICARUM PLANTARUM, ET RADICUM FORMAE, AD VIVUM PARTIBUS DUABUS, QUATUOR ETIAM LINGUIS OFFERUNTUR ET DELINEANTUR. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSSON 1641 — FLORILEGII PARS SECUNDA, IN QUA AGITUR DE PRAECIPIUS PLANTIS ET FLORIBUS FIBROSAS RADICES HABENTIBUS: NEC NON ARBORIBUS SPECIOSIS ET ODORIFERIS, QUIBUS HORTI IN UTRAQUE GERMANIA DECORANTUR. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSSON 1631 First part with etched allegorical title-page depicting Flora, flanked by Apollo and Artemis, in the foreground of a garden and incorporating medallion portraits of Carolus Clusius and Rembert Dodoens, 12 leaves of unpaginated text, including a catalogue of the flowers depicted, in Latin, Dutch, German, and French, numerous woodcut initials and initial-frames and woodcut and type-ornament headpieces. Second part with letterpress title-page with woodcut printer's device, 4 leaves of unpaginated text, being a catalogue of the flowers depicted, in Latin, Dutch, German, and French, with blank E2. Illustration: Etched portrait of Sweerts, 110 engraved plates (numbered 1–67, 1–43). 2 parts in one volume, folio (16 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.; 394 x 248 mm). Binding: Near contemporary vellum over pasteboards, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges. Green cloth folding-case, green morocco spine label. Provenance: Charles P. Berolzheimer (Doyle, 3 November 1999, lot 258). Some gradually diminishing wormholes running from front endpapers through plate 1.8 (those on the engraved title-page repaired), engraved title-page extended, portrait not wormed and supplied, early restoration to lower fore-edge corner of C3, some minor browning to text, plates 1.6 and 2.37 just shaved at fore-edge, a few others cut close, plates 1.53–62 and 2.17–26 dampstained, plate 1.4 with a tiny rust-hole, plate 2.30 with early repair to lower inside corner, scattered marginal foxing. Binding worn and soiled.
Sweerts, Emanuel FLORILEGIUM AMPLISSIMUM ET SELECTISSIMUM, QUO NON, TANTUM VARIA DIVERSORUM FLORUM PRAESTANTISSIMORUM ET NUNQUAM ANTEA EXHIBITORUM GENERA, SED ET RARAE QUAMPLURIMAE INDICARUM PLANTARUM, ET RADICUM FORMAE, AD VIVUM PARTIBUS DUABUS, QUATUOR ETIAM LINGUIS OFFERUNTUR ET DELINEANTUR. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSSON 1641 — FLORILEGII PARS SECUNDA, IN QUA AGITUR DE PRAECIPIUS PLANTIS ET FLORIBUS FIBROSAS RADICES HABENTIBUS: NEC NON ARBORIBUS SPECIOSIS ET ODORIFERIS, QUIBUS HORTI IN UTRAQUE GERMANIA DECORANTUR. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSSON 1631 First part with etched allegorical title-page depicting Flora, flanked by Apollo and Artemis, in the foreground of a garden and incorporating medallion portraits of Carolus Clusius and Rembert Dodoens, 12 leaves of unpaginated text, including a catalogue of the flowers depicted, in Latin, Dutch, German, and French, numerous woodcut initials and initial-frames and woodcut and type-ornament headpieces. Second part with letterpress title-page with woodcut printer's device, 4 leaves of unpaginated text, being a catalogue of the flowers depicted, in Latin, Dutch, German, and French, with blank E2. Illustration: Etched portrait of Sweerts, 110 engraved plates (numbered 1–67, 1–43). 2 parts in one volume, folio (16 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.; 394 x 248 mm). Binding: Near contemporary vellum over pasteboards, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges. Green cloth folding-case, green morocco spine label. Provenance: Charles P. Berolzheimer (Doyle, 3 November 1999, lot 258). Some gradually diminishing wormholes running from front endpapers through plate 1.8 (those on the engraved title-page repaired), engraved title-page extended, portrait not wormed and supplied, early restoration to lower fore-edge corner of C3, some minor browning to text, plates 1.6 and 2.37 just shaved at fore-edge, a few others cut close, plates 1.53–62 and 2.17–26 dampstained, plate 1.4 with a tiny rust-hole, plate 2.30 with early repair to lower inside corner, scattered marginal foxing. Binding worn and soiled.
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