LAUREMBERGI, Peter.
Horticultura, libri II. comprehensa; huic nostro coelo & solo accommodata; regulis, observationibus, experimentis, & figuris novis instructa: In qua quicquid ad hortum proficue colendum, et eleganter instruendum facit, explicatur.- Apparatus plantarius: tributus in duos libros. I. De plantis bulbosis. II. De plantis tuberosis. Quibus exhibentur praeter nomenclaturas, multiplices earum differentiae & species; vires; usas tam culinarius quam medicus: cultura sive ratio eas plantandi, conservandi, propagandi. Itemque quae poetae, philologi, philosophi, sacrae litterae, &c. de iis memoratu digna annotarunt.
Frankfurt, Matthaeus Merian, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 title-pages, each title in a richly engraved emblematic border, 29 engraved plates on gardens and gardening in the first work, and 36 engraved plates with flowers in the second work, all by Matthias Merian. Contemporary mottled calf. 165, 43, [1 blank]; 168 pp.
€ 2,500
Second edition of an interesting work on gardens and gardening, and an extensive study on garden flowers, both first published in 1632, and mostly found together. The author, Peter Lauremberg (1585-1639), was professor of botany at the universities of Hamburg, and Rostock. The work is nicely illustrated with engravings by the German artist and publisher Matthias Merian. In the first work there are 18 plates with garden plans and plans of labyrinths. Especially interesting are the 2 plates with models of the art of topiary. Merians book greatly influenced later writers on the subject.
Good copy of a rare work. Binding slightly rubbed; browned. Nissen 1146-1147; Pritzel 5088-5089; Springer p. 24 ("aardig werk").
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