APPARATUS PLANTARIUS PRIMUS

Lauremberg (Peter)

Description:

TRIBUTUS IN DUOS LIBROS. I. DE PLANTIS BULBOSIS. II. DE PLANTIS TUBEROSIS,

engraved title page, 168 pages followed by 23 engraved plates of garden tools and garden designs (misbound from the following work), 36 engraved plates in the text, 20 mm piece from the bottom corner of page 67 missing - does not affect the printed area.

Bound with;

HORTICULTURA, LIBRIS II. COMPREHENSA; HUIC NOSTRO COELO & SOLO ACCOMMODATA; REGULIS OBSERVATIONIBUS, EXPERIMENTIS, FIGURIS NOVIS INSTRUCTA: IN QUA QUICQUID AD HORTUM PROFICUE COLENDUM, ET ELEGANTER INSTRUENDUM FACIT, EXPLICATUR.

196 pages, engraved title page, 6 engraved plates with 28 figures of planting, grafting and topiary, full vellum, ties missing, several notes and inscriptions on the front paste-down endpaper, embossed bookplate on the verso of the free endpaper, text of both volumes heavily browned throughout with the exception of the 23 plates of garden tools etc.

Hunt, 219 and 221. The publication dates are taken from the dedications. These two works are often found bound together.

Details:

  • Publisher: Matthias Merian
  • Publisher Place: Frankfurt
  • Date of Publication: (1632 & 1631)
  • Size: 4to (205 x 160 mm)
  • Lot No: 46
  • Hammer Price: $840
  • Bids: 3
  • Visits: 106
  • Estimate: $1000/1250
  • Reserve: $700

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