Nicolaas Meerburgh (1734-1814) Plantae rariores vivis coloribus depictae. Leiden: Jacob Meerburgh, 1789. 2° (414 x 268mm). 55 hand-coloured etched plates by Meerburgh, several with early manuscript amendments of plate numbers or etcher's name. (Title soiled and with 230mm. neatly repaired tear, plate 11 holed in lower margin, just affecting plate area, some other light soiling.) Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco lettering-piece to spine (old repairs to corners and head and foot of spine, some scuffing). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, with the same plates as the original edition in Dutch (Leiden: 1775-1780). This copy includes additional small tabs on the verso of many of the plates, presumably where examples of dried plants had been collected by an early owner. Meerburgh, the curator of the Leiden Botanical Garden from 1774 until 1814, intended the work to be for reference with accurately coloured plates and on each plate he included a butterfly or moth drawn from his own collection. Dunthorne 203; Great Flower Books p.67; Hunt 705; Johnston Cleveland 592; Landwehr 126; Nissen BBI 1333; Stafleu and Cowan 5785.
Nicolaas Meerburgh (1734-1814) Plantae rariores vivis coloribus depictae. Leiden: Jacob Meerburgh, 1789. 2° (414 x 268mm). 55 hand-coloured etched plates by Meerburgh, several with early manuscript amendments of plate numbers or etcher's name. (Title soiled and with 230mm. neatly repaired tear, plate 11 holed in lower margin, just affecting plate area, some other light soiling.) Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco lettering-piece to spine (old repairs to corners and head and foot of spine, some scuffing). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, with the same plates as the original edition in Dutch (Leiden: 1775-1780). This copy includes additional small tabs on the verso of many of the plates, presumably where examples of dried plants had been collected by an early owner. Meerburgh, the curator of the Leiden Botanical Garden from 1774 until 1814, intended the work to be for reference with accurately coloured plates and on each plate he included a butterfly or moth drawn from his own collection. Dunthorne 203; Great Flower Books p.67; Hunt 705; Johnston Cleveland 592; Landwehr 126; Nissen BBI 1333; Stafleu and Cowan 5785.
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