Nederlandsch Bloemwerk | Amsterdam, 1794, contemporary half calf

Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap Geleerden.

Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1794

FIRST EDITION, 4to (280 x 215mm.), engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 52 hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers, many including insect life, contemporary half calf

“A symbol and representation of the ascendancy of the Dutch nurseryman, the developer and disperser of the tulips, hyacinths, and auriculas at the end of the eighteenth century” (Hunt). The plates are often replete with butterflies, caterpillars, beetles and other insects.

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 47; Hunt 733; Nissen BBI 2219