2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Vol. 1 upper joint splitting; spine-ends restored.
= Nissen, BBI 542. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Vol. 2 only. A complete set contains 250 woodcut plates.
= Nissen, BBI 547. Many of the plates were printed from the blocks used for the large plates in Mattioli's herbal, New Kreuterbuch (1563). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- All but one w. bookplate on first free endpaper; occas. sl. yellowed/ waterstained. Binding worn along extremities; spines sl. wormholed.
= An index of the plates is bound at the end of the 2nd vol. Very rare set of mainly botanical plates. Nissen, BBI 686.
- Without the 4 text vols. containing another 13 plates; plate numbering skips plate 277 (not published). Covers sl. chafed; corners worn/ showing. Nevertheless a fine set.
= Nissen, BBI 703; Pritzel 5084. Fine plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Joints sl. worn and splitting at spine-ends.
= Incl. the rare "Ergänzungsband" containing a further 10 plates. Not in Nissen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Binding worn; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Not in Nissen.
- Owner's dedication on second blank; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned (incl. plates). Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; sm. portion of letterpiece worn away; upper joint starting.
= Nissen, BBI 883.
- New endpapers; occas. (sl.) waterstained throughout, plates fine. Spine w. some sm. rubbed spots.
= Oldenburger-Ebbers/ Stehouwer, Bibliografie 18de eeuwse Ned. boeken tuinarchitectuur, p.8: "Knoop dankt zijn reputatie voornamelijk aan de vele publikaties over de cultuur van gewassen. Zijn Beschouwende en werkdadige Hovenier-konst valt enigszins buiten deze reeks. Behalve dat het boek handelt over het kweken van bloemen en planten, komen ook de vormgevende aspecten van een tuinontwerp aan bod. Zijn aanbevelingen leveren Baroktuinen op." A very useful and instructive garden manual. One of the rarest Knoop publications. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- One plate stained and reattached; 1 plate w. sm. stain in blank margin. Binding rubbed.
= Ad 1: cf. Nissen, BBI 1078; cf. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 89. Ad 2: (Fructologia): cf. Nissen, BBI 1077; cf. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 93.
- Bindings trifle rubbed along extremities, otherwise very fine copies.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 60; Nissen, BBI 2247; Pritzel 4822. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Some foxing. Lower joint and backcover sl. dam. at lower edge.
= Most editions have 12 plates. Nissen, BBI 1143 (other editions).
- Spine-ends (sl.) dam. = Pritzel 5084; Nissen, BBI 1144.
- Hole in title-p. w. loss of text; 2 text lvs. portion cut from lower blank margin; final 5 plates w. sm. wornhole.
- Vol. 1 upper hinge broken; occas. sl. yellowed. Bindings w. sm. imperfections.
= Complete set. Nissen, BBI 2212. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Outer margin of frontisp. flattened creases, a few closed holes and strengthened on verso; frontisp. cut sl. short in outer margin; upper margin of htitle creased and remargined (with loss of two words on verso); a few leaves trifle waterstained in outer margin. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The first edition. Interesting copy, with scattered contemp. annots. in pen and ink (possibly made for the second edition, as the annots. correspond to textual changes in the second edition). Nissen, BBI 1430; Pritzel 6556; De Belder 251. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Lacks upper pastedown and 1 plate; larger part title-p. invisible/ doubled on recto; lacks frontisp.; partly w. very vague (marginal) waterst. Vellum worn.
= The first edition. Nissen, BBI 1430; Pritzel 6556; De Belder 251. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Title doubled, cut sl. short and w. dam. spot and closed tear in lower margin, sl. affecting address; parly sl. waterstained in outer blank margin, not reaching text; 1 plate w. sm. hole in image. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Nissen, BBI 1430; Pritzel 6556; De Belder 251.
- Lacks one plate; upper hinge/ joint and one textp. repaired w. sellotape; title-p. and frontisp. browned; occas. sl. (water)stained. Spine badly rubbed; lacks marbled paper on backcover; top of spine dam.
= Cf. Waller 844.
- Lacks title-p., an unknown number of "Voorreden" pages and endpapers; partly waterstained in blank margins, just touching text; contemp. annots. in front and end of the work; 2 lvs. loose; hinges weak. Vellum darkened.
= Not in Nissen or Pritzel; cf. Hunt 406, listing the first English edition, published in 1703. "The original Dutch edition was De nieuwe Nederlandse Bloem-Hof (Leyden, 1700) (...) and the book reached its seventh edition in 1792. A second English edition appeared in 1711, a French edition at Leyden in 1714, and four German editions by 1728." (Hunt). All editions are very rare.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Register Van alle de Soorten der voornaamste vrugten (...). Leyden, J. du Vivié and I. Severinus, 1703, (4),55p.
- Sl. stained.
- Title-p. soiled; first and last few lvs. of first part and partly lvs. of 2nd part w. waterstain at lower inner corner; sl. browned; scatttered contemp. underlining and a few marginal annots. in pen and ink.
= Wellcome I, 4657; BMN III, 1479; Sabin 57665; Nissen, BBI 949. Including a woodcut of an armadillo. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.