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KARL LUDWIG BLUME (1796-1862)
KARL LUDWIG BLUME (1796-1862)
已結束2007年9月27日
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KARL LUDWIG BLUME (1796-1862)
Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, tum penitus incognitos tum quae in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii. Leiden: 1835-1848 [1849].
4 vols., 2° (427 x 270mm). Half-titles, dedication, 3 lithographic frontispieces on India paper, 210 lithographic plates of which 162 are hand-coloured and 28 are uncoloured botanical plats, 8 are botanical views and 12 are views on India paper, mostly from drawings by A.A.J. Payen (some browning, mostly to text). Contemporary brown quarter morocco, gilt-panelled spines, maroon boards. Provenance: the Robert de Belder Library copy (Sotheby's, 27 April, 1987, lot 33) -- H.C.Clayton (engraved bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION with brilliant colouring of this tribute to the great botanist George Eberhard Rumpf by Blume, who saw himself as his successor in the continuing investigation and illustration of the botany of Java. The plates are all additional to those in his Flora Javae (q.v.) with no duplications. Bastin & Brommer note 200; Nissen 178; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 32. (4)
Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, tum penitus incognitos tum quae in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii. Leiden: 1835-1848 [1849].
4 vols., 2° (427 x 270mm). Half-titles, dedication, 3 lithographic frontispieces on India paper, 210 lithographic plates of which 162 are hand-coloured and 28 are uncoloured botanical plats, 8 are botanical views and 12 are views on India paper, mostly from drawings by A.A.J. Payen (some browning, mostly to text). Contemporary brown quarter morocco, gilt-panelled spines, maroon boards. Provenance: the Robert de Belder Library copy (Sotheby's, 27 April, 1987, lot 33) -- H.C.Clayton (engraved bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION with brilliant colouring of this tribute to the great botanist George Eberhard Rumpf by Blume, who saw himself as his successor in the continuing investigation and illustration of the botany of Java. The plates are all additional to those in his Flora Javae (q.v.) with no duplications. Bastin & Brommer note 200; Nissen 178; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 32. (4)
KARL LUDWIG BLUME (1796-1862)
Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, tum penitus incognitos tum quae in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii. Leiden: 1835-1848 [1849].
4 vols., 2° (427 x 270mm). Half-titles, dedication, 3 lithographic frontispieces on India paper, 210 lithographic plates of which 162 are hand-coloured and 28 are uncoloured botanical plats, 8 are botanical views and 12 are views on India paper, mostly from drawings by A.A.J. Payen (some browning, mostly to text). Contemporary brown quarter morocco, gilt-panelled spines, maroon boards. Provenance: the Robert de Belder Library copy (Sotheby's, 27 April, 1987, lot 33) -- H.C.Clayton (engraved bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION with brilliant colouring of this tribute to the great botanist George Eberhard Rumpf by Blume, who saw himself as his successor in the continuing investigation and illustration of the botany of Java. The plates are all additional to those in his Flora Javae (q.v.) with no duplications. Bastin & Brommer note 200; Nissen 178; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 32. (4)
Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, tum penitus incognitos tum quae in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii. Leiden: 1835-1848 [1849].
4 vols., 2° (427 x 270mm). Half-titles, dedication, 3 lithographic frontispieces on India paper, 210 lithographic plates of which 162 are hand-coloured and 28 are uncoloured botanical plats, 8 are botanical views and 12 are views on India paper, mostly from drawings by A.A.J. Payen (some browning, mostly to text). Contemporary brown quarter morocco, gilt-panelled spines, maroon boards. Provenance: the Robert de Belder Library copy (Sotheby's, 27 April, 1987, lot 33) -- H.C.Clayton (engraved bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION with brilliant colouring of this tribute to the great botanist George Eberhard Rumpf by Blume, who saw himself as his successor in the continuing investigation and illustration of the botany of Java. The plates are all additional to those in his Flora Javae (q.v.) with no duplications. Bastin & Brommer note 200; Nissen 178; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 32. (4)
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