FIRST EDITION, folio (450 x 280mm.), half-title, title in Latin and Dutch, text in Latin, Dutch, French and Dutch, 48 engraved plates, all but one coloured by hand, contemporary half roan, binding with slight wear to extremities

Cleveland Botanical Collection, sale, Christie's New York, 4 December 2014, lot 170

Cleveland Herbal 620; Great Flower Books, p.75; Hunt728; Nissen BBI 1784; Stafleu TL2 10.931

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Described by Great Flower Books as “the finest eighteenth-century Dutch botanical book; [it] illustrates plants grown in the famous Voorhelm and Schneevoogt nursery at Haarlem”. The plates were engraved after drawings by Hendrik Schwegman and are notable for the number of Cape plants illustrated, including a number of ericas.