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Hortus Cliffortianus.
Amsterdam: 1737. Folio (420 x 245 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved frontispiece by and after J. Wandelaar, 36 engraved plates by Wandelaar and others (20 after G.D. Ehret). Contemporary diced russia, gilt, covers with elaborate gilt-tooled border, spine in seven compartments, lettering piece in the second, g.e. Condition : some very faint marginal spotting mostly to text leaves; old rebacking with joints renewed but somewhat dried, joints starting at ends. Provenance : Coward College Library (bookplate); Haskell Norman (bookplate, sale: Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 621, $9,500). the norman copy: a tall copy of the first edition of linnaeus' first detailed catalogue of cultivated plants. Dutch merchant George Clifford owned a spectacular botanical garden near Haarlem. He employed Linnaeus to produce a permanent record in the form of this catalogue as well as having him serve as the garden's superintendent. The plates, particularly those after Ehret, are renowned as being "among the most lovely among 'plain' ones in any flower book" (Hunt). Dunthorne p.186; Hunt 504; Nissen BBI 1215; Norman 1358; Soulsby 328; Stafleu & Cowan 4719; Wellcome III, p. 525. [ With :] B.H.SOULSBY. A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) preserved in the libraries of the British Muesum (Bloomsbury) and the british Museum (Natural History) (South Kensington) . Second edition. London: printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1933. 4to (278 x 220 mm). Half-title. Portrait frontispiece, title vignette, 4 plates. Original green cloth gilt.