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Amsterdam, Joannis van Someren, et Joannis van Dyck, 1678. 4 vols. I: Intaglio frontispiece, (16cc), 110pp, (1). Of the 57 folded table cards, only table n. 9 and 10. (present only 2 tables); II: (8), 110, (2) p., 56 cards of table folded: ill. intaglio; III: Intaglio frontispiece, (12cc), 88pp, plates folded from 1 to 30, and from 51 to 64. Missing 21 plates, from 31 to 50., ill. intaglio. (present 43 tables); IV: (4cc), 166pp, (1), 61 plates of tables fold, ill. chalcographic, Ff2 paper restored with partial interruption of the text. (present 61 tables). Damaged coeval hardcover bindings, numerous white papers in the text. Total of 162 plates.
Specialist Notes
"Cleyer's search for medicinal plants in the Dutch East Indies prompted Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) to lead a lengthy investigation of the flora of the Malabar coast, India Emphasizing that it would have been more cost-effective for the Company to rely on locally available drugs to treat employees located in different regions of the East Indies, van Reede used the increasingly important assignments assigned to him by the Company to promote a vast team study on Indian botany, which he later published under the title of Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (1678-1703), a work consisting of twelve folio volumes containing the description of about seven hundred plant species and almost eight hundred related engravings to the flora, many of them in full size and in double format." cit. Treccani