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Second improved and enlarged edition of an encyclopedic manual on horticulture
KNOOP, Johann Hermann.Beknopte huishoudelyke hovenier. Inhoudende eene verhandeling en meernamige lijsten van alle soorten van ooft-vrugten. Insgelyks van alle boom- en heesteragtige plantagie-gewassen. Gelyk ook van alle keuken-gewassen, veld-vrugten, verfstof-gewassen en anderen.- (Tweede deel. Inhoudende eene verhandeling van alle bloem-gewassen. Gelyk ook eene maandelyksche aanwyzing der tuin-bezigheden....- Derde deel. Inhoudende eene verhandeling van alle medicinaale planten, welke hoofdzaakelyk in de genees- en heelkunde voorgeschreven en gebruikt worden....)   Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, (1760-1762). 3 vols. 8vo. 18th century marbled boards, rebacked. X, 294; (8), 415; (6), 362, (40) pp. Second improved and enlarged edition of this encyclopedic manual on all aspects of horticulture, including fruit- and kitchen-gardens, as well as the cultivation of medicinal plants and herbs by Johan Hermann Knoop (1700?-1769?). The various trees, plants and herbs are treated alphabetically, and at the end of the second part, devoted to the cultivation of flowers, a gardener's calendar is added. The third part, treating the medicinal plants, virtually present a popular pharmacopeia. The author, who was head gardener at the estate Marienburg near Leeuwarden, later reworked the first part, on fruit-trees, shrubs, and kitchen-gardens, into the famous coloured plates book "Pomologia, Fructologia", published in 4 volumes in the 1770s. Good set of a rare work.- (First blank lvs. sl. stained).
Molhuysen-Blok III, 706; not in Pritzel, Jackson, nor Cat. British Mus. Nat. Hist.
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