Medicinal Plants.- Zorn (J.) Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche berschryvingen, 6 vol., first Dutch edition, Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp and Zoon, 1798-1800.

Medicinal Plants.- Zorn (J.) Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche berschryvingen, 6 vol., first Dutch edition, text in Dutch and Latin, printed in double columns, engraved title vignettes and 600 hand-coloured plates (plates 444 and 446 misnumbered and corrected in manuscript), a few plates or text ff. becoming loose but holding, contemporary half calf, gilt spines with red and black morocco labels, corners bumped and a little worn, edges uncut, [Nissen BBI 2203], 8vo, Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp and Zoon, 1798-1800.

*** A very good clean set of this beautifully illustrated and handsomely hand-coloured work on medical plants.

The Dutch edition of Zorn's well-known Icones Plantarum Medicinalium. The work was published by the famous publishers J.C. Sepp en Zoon. The plates were newly engraved and superbly hand-coloured and more refined than the original German edition. The publishing house Sepp & Zoon was a firm which exercised the utmost care in producing colour-plate books of outstanding quality. The text was greatly modified and gives, for example, the location where the plant was growing in the Netherlands. Vol. I was edited by D.L. Oskamp vols. 2-3 by M. Houttuyn and vols. 4-6 by J.C. Krauss. Each of the volumes contains systematical registers (in Dutch and Latin) arranged after Linnaeus. Moreover the last volume contains systematical and alphabetical indices to the whole work.