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Natural History / Floras & Flowering Plants

The most important 18th-century work on the plants in the Alsace region

MAPPUS, Marcus and Johan Christian EHRMANN (editor). Historia plantarum alsaticarum.
Strasbourg and Amsterdam, Johann Daniel Dulsecker and Pieter Mortier, 1742. 4to. With 7 folding copper-engraved plates of plants, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, an engraved coat-of-arms of François-Joseph de Klinglin, baron de Hattstatt etc. as a headpiece above the dedication, 3 woodcut initials, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the main text and the index, a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the main text, and the title-page is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled, polished calf. [8], 335, [32] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Rare 19th-century pomological work

MAS, Alphonse. Le verger ou histoire, culture et description avec planches coloriées des variétés de fruits le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, [1873]. 8 parts in 8 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 18.7 cm). With 384 chromo-lithographed plates with 792 figures depicting pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries and apricots. Contemporary blind-stamped green buckram. Each plate with 4 pages text. Full description
€ 5,000
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Flora of the isle of Capraia, with 6 plates

MORIS, Giuseppe Giacinto and Giuseppe de NOTARIS. Florula Caprariae sive enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum.
Torino, Ex Regio Typographeo, 1839. Large 4to (31 x 23 cm). With 6 numbered engraved botanical plates. Publisher's original printed blue paper wrappers. 244, [6] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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On British herbs and the American aloe

MUNTING, Abraham. De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681.
With: (2) MUNTING, Abraham. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.
[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Further with several woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Modern half green morocco, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label lettered in gold, with gold decorations in 5 compartments. [28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Beautifully illustrated Dutch flower book, with more than 50 hand-coloured plates

[NEDERLANDSCH BLOEMWERK]. Nederlandsch bloemwerk. Door een gezelschap geleerden.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794. 4to. With 54 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers, including an engraved title page signed by Paul Theodor van Brussel and Hendrik Leffert Myling. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [2 blank], [6], 128, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Extremely rare 1780s nursery catalogue from the centre of the Dutch flower bulb trade

[NURSERY CATALOGUE - FLOWER BULBS - HAARLEM]. Catalogue des tres belle[!] oignons des fleurs, comme jacinthes, tulipes, ranuncules, anemones, bouquet-narcissen, etc. Qu'on trouve à vendre chez Isaak Moerbeek, fleurist à Harlem en Hollande.
[Haarlem?], 178[4]. 12mo. Contemporary half brocade paper wrappers with floral paper sides. 40 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Very rare last edition of a popular gardener’s handbook

OOSTEN, Hendrik van. De naauwkeurige bloemist, of de nieuwe Nederlandsche bloemhof, waarin onderrigt wordt, hoe men alle soorten van bloemen, planten en boomen moet aankweeken, onderhouden en vruchtbaar maken. Benevens eene beschrijving om de boomen goed en wel te snoeijen, ten einde dezelve goed vruchtbaar te houden, enz. enz.
Amsterdam, Wouter Brave, [1825]. 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [12], 312 pp. Full description
€ 950
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