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Plants in the botanical garden of the Leyden university

HERMANN, Paul.
Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones.

Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above.

Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above.

Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above.

Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above.

Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above.



Leyden, Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1687. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink and old library label on spine. Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above. (20), 699, (1) pp.

First edition of a botanical list of the plants in the botanical garden of the Leyden university, made by Paul Hermann (1640-1695). The German botanist Hermann became professor of botany in Leyden in 1679. He competed with Commelin's garden in Amsterdam to be the best, and he managed to make the Leyden botanical garden the richest garden in the Dutch Golden Age in Europe, with at least 4000 different plants. He did excellent, vigorous work in depicting his plants. His drawings of Ceylon plants inspired Linée in 1745 for the famous Flora zeylandica, published two years later. Due to Hermann's early death in 1695 he was not able to complete the planned second part of his work.

Good copy.- (Foxed; 2 lvs. loosening).
Nissen, ZBI, 859; Pritzel 3991; Hunt 378 (both Hunt and Nissen mention only 106 plates).

Related Subjects: Botany  Gardens  Natural History 

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