Burmanns famous flora of Ceylon
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CEYLON. FIRST ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF CEYLON - SRI LANKA. BURMANN, JOANNIS. Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes, inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta. (I-II.) Amsterdam (Janssonius-Waesberg & Salomon Schouten) 1737.
4:o (leaf 254 x 206 mm.). (16), 1-235, (15), (Catalogi duo Plantarum Africanarum): (2), 1-33, (1) pp. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 1 engraved portrait (close cut in upper margin), 111 engraved plates (all, numbered 1 - 110, 18*, some foxing, some faint offsetting of text to plates, text with some minor foxing, otherwise a very fine copy).
Contemporary vellum, worn, blindstamped frames and decorations, cracks (partly mended) in upper part of the joints, new inner doublures and endpapers, spine in seven compartments, title lettered in ink, small number label pasted in upper compartment. First free old endpaper with manuscript list of flowers (in latin). Signature of F. A. M. Miguel, Gron. 1832. Loosely inserted a letter from Martinus Nijhoff, Boekhandelaar (in 's-Gravenhage) to F. Bryk, dated 3rd June 1919, concerning the book.
Hunt 501, Tax. Lit. 928, Plesch 165 - 166, Great Flower Books p. 52, Nissen BBI 303.
Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by Adriaan van der Laan. With the engraved portait of the author by J. Houbraken.
The first illustrated flora of Ceylon, based on collections of plants made in Ceylon by Paul Hermann (1640 - 1695) and Jan Hartog. Ceylon was then a Dutch colony. Burmann (1706-1779) was professor of botany and director of the Botanical garden in Amsterdam and a close friend of Linneaus. As regards Linnaeus' contribution in perfecting this work while staying as a guest in the Burman house, see Arvid Hj. Uggla 'Linne och Burmannerna' in Svenska Linne-Sällskapets Årsskrift XX, 1937, pp. 128 - 144. Ten years later Linneus himself brought out his own Flora Zeylanica (1747).
The Catalogi duo Plantarum Africanarum is in fact a separate work. Burman drew the list mainly from Paul Hermann, who had visited the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage to Ceylon.
Provenance: Collecta Friesia. Elias Fries (1794-1878), famous Swedish mycologist and botanist. His most important work was "Systema mycologicum" published in 1821-32, Thore M. Fries (1832-1913), Robert Fries (1876-1966), Magnus Fries (1917-1987), Robert Fries (b. 1952).
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Auktionsnummer:
6410
Datum:
2015-06-16