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Flowers of Java

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN, Berthe.
Fleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ile de Java.

With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French.

With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French.

With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French.

With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French.

With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French.



Troisième édition. Bruxelles, Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt, (1880). Folio. Original publisher's red half cloth, printed boards, title gilt. With 40 full-page chromolithographed plates after original watercolours by the author, each plate accompanied by one text-leaf, with descriptions in English and French. 44 lvs.

Magnificent colour plate book, depicting the Javanese fruits and flowers by the Belgian artist Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885). Shortly after having followed her husband to Java, Indonesia, she became a widow at twenty-two, indebted and with a family to support. To make a living, she took to the painting of the flora of the island. Her very skilled sketches show the exuberant colour display of tropical fruits and flowers, ideally suited to the new technique of chromolithography, printed by P. de Pannemaeker in Belgium. "The excellent reproduction of the artist's drawings in the form of chromolithographs lends an added tactility to these striking images" (An Oak Spring Flora). Among the depicted plants are: the Mango, Pomelo, Rambutan, Durian, Cacao, Custard-Apple, Banana, Bread-Fruit, and Star-Fruit. The work was published in parts in 1863-1864, and republished twice, using the same plates.

Good copy.- (Binding restored, new endpapers, some browning).
Nissen, BBI ,931 (listing the first edition 1863-4); Stafleu/Cowan 3025; Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik 363.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Botany  Chromolithography  Indonesia  Java  Natural History 

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