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Botany.- Commelin (Caspar) Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae, first edition, title with woodcut of bowl of flowers & fruit hand-coloured and heightened with gold, 48 etched plates by P.Sluyter expertly coloured in a contemporary hand, many heightened with white and gum arabic, many with caption in ink in contemporary hand in lower margin, some light browning and offsetting, faint heraldic stamp and ink signature "Will. Forsyth" to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, lacking label, [Nissen BBI 387], 4to, Leiden, Fr.Haringh, 1706.

⁂ Scarce coloured copy of Commelin's supplement to his uncle Jan's Horti medici Amstelodamensis of 1697-1701 and containing many plates of new species recently introduced from the Cape, particularly aloes.

?Possibly William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist and gardener, author of many works on trees, and founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society. Forsyth trained as a gardener under Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden and from 1784 until his death was superintendent of the royal gardens at Kensington and St.James's palaces.

Lot 71

Botany.- Commelin (Caspar) Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae, first edition, 48 finely hand-coloured engraved plates, Leiden, F.Haringh, 1706.  

Hammer Price: £7,500

Description

Botany.- Commelin (Caspar) Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae, first edition, title with woodcut of bowl of flowers & fruit hand-coloured and heightened with gold, 48 etched plates by P.Sluyter expertly coloured in a contemporary hand, many heightened with white and gum arabic, many with caption in ink in contemporary hand in lower margin, some light browning and offsetting, faint heraldic stamp and ink signature "Will. Forsyth" to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, lacking label, [Nissen BBI 387], 4to, Leiden, Fr.Haringh, 1706.

⁂ Scarce coloured copy of Commelin's supplement to his uncle Jan's Horti medici Amstelodamensis of 1697-1701 and containing many plates of new species recently introduced from the Cape, particularly aloes.

?Possibly William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist and gardener, author of many works on trees, and founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society. Forsyth trained as a gardener under Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden and from 1784 until his death was superintendent of the royal gardens at Kensington and St.James's palaces.

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