Campanulaceae - Jasione montana
From: Flora batava by Jan Kops, Herman Christiaan van Hall and others.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1832, volume 6, plate 434. Hand-coloured engraving (uncut, unpressed
sheet 247 x 298 mm). Text enclosed.€ 125
The Flora batava, a monumental work forming a beautifully illustrated survey of all indigenous
plants in the Netherlands. It was started in 1800 by Jan Kops, a Dutch
agronomist and professor of botany at Utrecht. The first 10 volumes constitute
all that was prepared and issued under his supervision (later assisted by Herman
Christiaan van Hall, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel and Johannes Everhardus van
der Trappen). When finished at last in 1934, Willem Jan Lütjeharms was the
editor for volume 28, in which he concludes that this work has ended now and
that publication took longer than any comparable foreign flora: De Flora Batava
heeft langer geleefd dan een der met dit werk vergelijkbare buitenlandsche
plaatwerken. The long publication period reflects the change in the technique
of its illustrations. Initially copper-engravings were used, followed by
lithographs, all coloured by hand, but from volume 25 colour-printing was
gradually introduced. Also several artists were involved, but the plates are not
signed, nor much information is given about them. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp
en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific colour-plate books. Each plate is
accompanied by a text in Dutch and French. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to.
This plate is in the most desirable large 4to format.
* Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Nissen BBI 2247; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 60; Stafleu &
Cowan 3874; Johnston 663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
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Campanulaceae - Jasione montana
From: Flora londinensis by William Curtis.
London, the author, [1775-] 1777-1798,, plate 245. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 280 x 464; impression 185 x 303 mm;
under passe-partout). Text enclosed.€ 120
Though William Curtis was not one of the great scientists, his name is writ large in English botany. Trained as an
apothecary, he turned to gardening and then the description and illustration of
plants. In his Flora londinensis he presented an impressive record of
wildflowers growing within ten miles of London, including many no longer found
there; and in his Botanical Magazine (1786 to date) he offered those
exotics which Englishmen were pleased to grow in their gardens. … this splendid,
complicated, basic English flora … (Hunt). Most of the plates are unsigned, but
the artists involved were James Sowerby, Sydenham Teast Edwards and William Kilburn.
* Pritzel 2004; Dunthorne 87; Blunt p. 185; Nissen BBI 439; Great flower books p. 54; Hunt 650; Henrey 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1286.
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