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BLUME, Karel Lodewijk (1796-1862) and Johann Baptist FISCHER (d.1832). Flora Javae, nec non insularum adjacentium . Brussels: H. Remy for J. Frank, 1828-[1830]. Parts I-35 (of 42) in 3 volumes, 2° (448 x 275mm). Half-title in volume I. Woodcut printer's device on title. 185 (of 238) engraved and lithographic plates by W. Engels, van Genk, Nikolaus Christian Hohe, Hütz, G. Seveyrans, Gustave Adolphe and Pierre Simonau, Sixtus, and J. Vivien after Arckenhausen, Jannes Theodorus Bick, Blume, Latour, Meÿen, Sixtus, J. Vivien, T. Wild, 180 hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, 13 double-page (Variable spotting and browning, lacking portrait frontispiece.) Contemporary half russia gilt, the spine gilt in compartments, lettered in two compartments and at the foot, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed and bumped). FIRST EDITION. Born in Germany, Blume was a Dutch botanist who travelled in Java, and was for a long time the director of the Leiden Rijksherbarium. Flora Javae was issued in forty-two parts between 1828 and 1851; the first thirty-five parts (those found in this set) were issued at a steady rate between August 1828 and August 1830, then, following a hiatus of 17 years, the remaining seven parts were published in August 1847 (parts 36-39) and March 1851 (parts 40-42). This interrupted pattern suggests that the present set was bound up shortly after the appearance of part 35, on the assumption that no further parts would appear. Arnold Arboretum p.88; Bradley Bibiliography I, p.468; BM(NH) I, p.178; Brunet I, col.981; Cleveland Collections 940; Nissen BBI 174; Pritzel 845; Stafleu and Cowan 563. (3)