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Lot 149

LINNAEUS (CAROLUS)
Hortus Cliffortianus, first edition, Amsterdam, 1737

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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LINNAEUS (CAROLUS)

Hortus Cliffortianus, first edition, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Wandelaar, 36 engraved plates (of which 20 after G.D. Ehret), lacks half-title, plates 13 and 32 misbound, pages 232-300 (gatherings Nnn2-Ffff2) omitted as issued, some spotting and browning, dampstain in top gutter margin of early gatherings, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining earlier label, recornered with loss of one corner [Dunthorne 186; Nissen BBI 1215; Hunt 504; Pritzel 5408], folio (432 x 260mm.), Amsterdam, 1737

Footnotes

The first edition of Linnaeus' first detailed catalogue of cultivated plants. The wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant George Clifford employed Linnaeus as superintendent of his botanic garden at Hartekamp, near Haarlem from 1735 to 1738. Clifford paid for this publication, illustrated with fine plates of plants which "are among the most lovely among 'plain' ones in any flower book" (Hunt).

Provenance: Hugh Ross, St. Mary Ax, ownership inscription on title; J.M. Coulter, stamp on front free endpaper.

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