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Blume, Carl Ludwig
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
- Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis. Leyde and Amsterdam: C.G. Sulpke - Brussels: H. Remy - Dusseldorf: Arnz et Socios - Paris: C. Roret, 1835-36-47-48.
- paper, ink, leather
4 volumes folio (17 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.; 435 x 270 mm.). 3 lithographed portraits, 210 lithographed plates, of which 159 are hand-colored, and 12 are views. Half green morocco by Hiltz. Some rubbing on the bindings, foxing, folding plates with small tears on the lower margins.
Provenance
W.E. Hayward - Pana Public Library (presentation label).
Literature
Great Flower Books, p.50; Nissen BBI 178; Stafleu TL2 566
Catalogue Note
First edition.
A magnificent work on the flora of the East Indies, based primarily on the author's work in Java. It comprises plants previously undescribed in the floras of Rheede tot Draakestein, Rumpf, Roxburgh, and Wallich, as well as Blume's own Flora Javae. The title refers to George Eberhard Rumpf (1627-1702). Blume saw himself as continuing Rumpf's pioneering work and indeed was acknowledged as his spiritual disciple with the cognomen "Rumphius".