Haloragaceae - Myriophyllum spicatum
From: Flora batava by Jan Kops and others.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1807, volume 2, plate 150. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 225 x 278 mm). Text enclosed.€ 100
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. 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. Most plates in the first 3 volumes were illustrated by Georg Jacob
Johann van Os. He was born in 1782 in The Hague and settled in Paris in 1826,
where he worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory and was a painter of flower and
fruit pieces, still lifes, etc. These early, finely engraved plates are
exquisitely coloured by hand. Each plate is accompanied by a text in Dutch and
French. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific
colour-plate books. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to. This plate is in the
most desirable 4to format.
* Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Nissen BBI 2247;
Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 60; Stafleu & Cowan 3874; Sam Segal:
Flowers and nature pp. 250-251 (Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os); Johnston
663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
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Haloragaceae - Myriophyllum verticillatum
From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la
méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin.
Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 217.
Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm).€ 45
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all
the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of
botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ... (Blunt). With Pierre-Antoine
Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of
the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical
part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued
uncoloured or coloured.
* Pritzel 10.722; Nissen BBI 2239; Blunt p. 180 ff.;
Stafleu & Cowan 1293 & 15.384.
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Haloragaceae - Myriophyllum verticillatum
From: Flora batava by Jan Kops, Herman Christiaan van Hall and others.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1828, volume 5, plate 335. Hand-coloured engraving (unpressed sheet
243 x 299 mm). Text enclosed.€ 100
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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