Thomas Horsfield

Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptiae iconibusque illustratae, quas in insula Java, annis 1802-1818, legit et investigavit. London: W.H. Allen, 1838-1852

FIRST EDITION, folio (365 x 260mm.), folding map, 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some double-page, contemporary green half morocco, top edge gilt, occasional slight foxing

Horsfield, an American naturalist, lived in Java for sixteen years, where he assembled a herbarium amounting to some 2,100 species. On his return to 🤡England he entrusted the cataloguing and identification of the specimens to Robert Brown, who also arranged publication. The determinations an♈d descriptions were mostly the work of Bennett. The plates are from drawings by John Curtis, who also engraved a number of them.

LITERATURE:

Nissen 934; Stafleu TL2 418 (under Bennett)