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Rare first edition of a fine treatise on the cultivation of exotic fruit-trees

STERBEECK, Johannes Franciscus van.
Citricultura, oft Regeringhe der Uythemsche Boomen, te weten Oranien, Citroenen, Limoenen, Granaten, Laurieren, en andere. Waer in beschreven is de gedaente en de kennisse der Boomen, met hunne bloemen, bladeren en vruchten: van ieder geslacht in het besonder. Als oock van den Ranck-Appel, Oprechten Laurier van America, den Caneel-Boom: Ende besonderlijck van den Verboden Adams oft Paradys-Appel. Daer beneffens de natuere, kracht, en ghebruyck, haer deught en ondeught van ieder vrucht en plant. Waer by oock grondigh gheleert wordt het Zaeyen, Mesten, Planten, Oculeren, Inten, Afsuyghen, Inlegghen, Besnoeyen, en Begieten. Oock de kenisse van het treuren ofte sieckten der Boomen, ende haere behulp-middelen. Met alle het ghene dese Boomen (soo wel in den winter, als in den somer) tot welstandt zijn versoeckende. Ende dat alles naer den eysch van ons Nederlandts Climaet.

With richly engraved frontispiece by François Ertinger after C.E. Biset, showing people planting a tree in a pot in a garden, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicee, Justus de Nobelaer, by Ertinger, and illustrations of trees, plants and flowers on 14 folding engraved plates.

With richly engraved frontispiece by François Ertinger after C.E. Biset, showing people planting a tree in a pot in a garden, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicee, Justus de Nobelaer, by Ertinger, and illustrations of trees, plants and flowers on 14 folding engraved plates.

With richly engraved frontispiece by François Ertinger after C.E. Biset, showing people planting a tree in a pot in a garden, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicee, Justus de Nobelaer, by Ertinger, and illustrations of trees, plants and flowers on 14 folding engraved plates.

With richly engraved frontispiece by François Ertinger after C.E. Biset, showing people planting a tree in a pot in a garden, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicee, Justus de Nobelaer, by Ertinger, and illustrations of trees, plants and flowers on 14 folding engraved plates.



Antwerp, Joseph Jacobs, 1682. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, with red mottled edges. With richly engraved frontispiece by François Ertinger after C.E. Biset, showing people planting a tree in a pot in a garden, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicee, Justus de Nobelaer, by Ertinger, and illustrations of trees, plants and flowers on 14 folding engraved plates. (40), 296, (18) pp.

Rare first edition of an extensive text book on the cultivation of exotic fruit-trees, like orange-trees, lemon- and lime-trees, bay-trees, etc. An extra poem about Adam lamenting for Eden is inserted as a plate (included into the list of plates added at the end). It heads a chapter of speculation on the identity of Adam's apple, the forbidden fruit - is it an apple, a fig, or even a banana? The book also includes instructions about grafting and pests. The trees are mostly kept in pots, in the winter in a greenhouse and in the summer in the garden. The botanical plates are beautifully designed, based on those by the Italian botanist Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655), and are finely executed by the engraver François Ertinger, born in 1640 in Schwaben, Germany, but active at Antwerp where he was in the 1670's a master of the St. Lucas guild, and at the beginning of the 18th century he is  found working at Paris. Johannes Franciscus van Sterbeeck (1631-1693), a Flemish priest and botanist, tells in the preface how he lent his notes on citrus fruits which he had been collecting over a number of years to his Amsterdam colleague Jan Commelin, who sent them back in April 1677 with a copy of his book "Nederlantze Hesperides" for which he had used the notes in grateful return. Sterbeeck tells this story, he adds, so nobody will accuse him of copying Commelin. A second edition was published in Antwerp, in 1712.
Good copy of a rare book.- (Binding sl. rubbed, top of spine worn off; sl. waterst. at the beginning).
Nissen, BBI 1893; Pritzel 8948; Hunt, Botan. Cat. 365; Stafleu-Cowan 13.013; An Oak Spring Pomona 70.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  Natural History 

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