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DRAAKESTEIN, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot

"4 botanical engravings from : ""Hortus Indicus Malabaricus"""

€450 - €600

"All 4 hand-coloured, 35,5 x 41,5 cm, published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. Each species was named in Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Malayalam. All with a centerfold, three with a few very small holes. In this collection: part 3, nr. 33 Neolamarckia cadamba ; part 3, nr. 41 Diospyros malabarica ; part 4, nr. 14 Naringi crenulata ; part 4, nr. 45 Avicennia officinalis. Beautifully bronze-gilt frames, Italian taste"

"Ref. Pritzel 7585; Nissen BBI 1625 ; Landwehr VOC, 603. Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) was botanist, naturalist, and a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. ""Malabaarse Kruydhof"" with striking large plates, highlighting the exotic nature of many of these at the time unfamiliar plantspecies"

Botany