Coenraad Temminck and P.W. Korthals | Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis, Leiden, 1839-42, vol 1 of 3 only

Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Pieter Willem Korthals

Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedems der Netherlandsche overzeesche bezittingen. Leiden: S. and J. Luchtmans and C. C. Van der Hoek, 1839-1842

Volume 1 (of 3, only), folio (437 x 298mm.), lithographed title, half-title, 70 lithographed plates by A.S. Mulder after J. Gaykema, P.W. Korthals and others, many hand-coloured, contemporary green half morocco, silk endpapers, some foxing, prelims dampstained, one text leaf creased, extremities rubbed

A finely bound copy of 3 volumes about the natural history of the Netherlands, including plates after various artists and written by Coenraad Jacob Temminck, the notable Dutch naturalist and ornithologist, and Pieter Willem Korthals, who was a botanist.

PROVENANCE:

Mr F.C. Koch, Rotterdam, bookplate

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 63; Nissen BBI 1092; Pritzel 4829