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RHEEDE TOT DRAAKESTEIN (HENRIK ADRIAN VAN)
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE FLORA OF THE EAST INDIES.
During his tenure as a Dutch East India Company administrator in Malabar from 1636 to 1691, Van Rheede oversaw an extensive botanical survey, focusing particularly on plants with economic and medicinal value. This project brought together Dutch botanists, physicians, and local experts, including the notable Kerala physician Itti Achudan, whose Malayalam writings were translated into Latin and formed a cornerstone of the work.
The documentation captured plant names across multiple languages - Sanskrit, Malayalam, Arabic, and Latin. While Van Reede's primary goal was botanical documentation, his decision to include multilingual plant names has made his work invaluable to language historians. The botanical entries feature plant names in two distinct Malayalam variants. One uses the traditional Malayalam script, while the other employs the ancient Nāgarī script. Though Nāgarī script specimens are commonly found in Prakrit and Sanskrit religious texts, examples of classical Malayalam script from this period are exceptionally rare.
As in other copies, the title page to volume 1, dated 1686, is not the original one but a reprint of the volume 6 title-page with the sole change of volume number.
Provenance: Robert Barclay, bookplate; Massachusetts Horticultural Society, bookplate and ink stamp on title and plates; Robert De Belder, his sale (A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books), Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, lot 301.

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