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90 APPLES & PEARS AND 24 FRUIT & NUT TREES IN 39 COLOURED PLATES
KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving en Afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appelen en Peeren, ...
WITH: KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van Vruchtboomen en Vruchten, ...
WITH: KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van Plantagie-Gewassen, ...
Amsterdam, Allart, Holtrop; Dordrecht, De Leeuw, Krap, 1790. Folio. 3 works in 1 volume. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). Coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf with spine label, sprinkled-paper sides.
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Third Dutch edition, with the illustrations printed from the original plates, of three classic works of pomology (two illustrated), originally published in 1758 and 1763 as Pomologia, Fructologia and Dendrologia. They were also translated into French and German. The twenty plates illustrating ninety apples and pears were drawn by the author and engraved by Jan Caspar Philips (ca. 1700-1775) and Jacob Folkema (1692-1767). Those of branches of fruit and nut trees were no doubt drawn by the author as well but are unsigned. Knoop (1700-1769) was gardener to Princess Anne (mother of Willem V, Prince of Orange, and his regent from 1751 to her death in 1759) at her Marienburg estate near Leeuwaarden. In this edition, the plates are printed on the outer part of whole sheets bound as folding leaves. This makes it easy to look at the plates while reading the text.
At least in the present copy, the title-page of the Plantagie-Gewassen is a cancel, not noted in the STCN, but it matches the title described there. The title-page may therefore be a cancel in all copies (the blank singleton leaf at the end of the book is not the cancelled leaf from this copy, but does come from the same paper stock).
In very good condition, with only some browning along old folds in a few plates, and a minor marginal water stain in four leaves. A standard work of Dutch pomology, well illustrated.
