GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702)
GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702)
GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702) Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas conplectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres & aquaticas, quae in Amboina, et adjacentibus reperiunter insulis Het Auctuarium ofte Vermeerdering op her Amboinsch Kruyd-Boek . Amsterdam: Meinard Uytwerf, 1750, 1755. 6 parts and supplement in 7 vols., 2° (400 x 255mm). Engraved allegorical half-title, portraits of Rumpf and Burmann, title-pages printed in red and black, 8 general titles, 8 part titles, parallel text in Latin and Dutch, 700 engraved plates, some folding, the plates to part I-VI bound in 3 vols., plates to the supplement bound in with text. (Some minimal browning to text.) Contemporary gilt-ruled mottled calf, fully gilt spines, red and black labels, gilt arms on upper and lower covers (rebacked retaining original spines, modern endpapers). Provenance : John Stuart Earl of Bute (1713-1792) (gilt arms) -- Lord Derby, Knowsley Hall (sold in 1977) -- The Robert de Belder Library (Sotheby's 27-18 April, 1987, lot 315). RARE FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, WITH THE SUPPLEMENT, of the most important work on Indonesia of the eighteenth century along with Rumpf's D'Amboinische 1705, and one of the chief early accounts of the flora of the East Indies. This second issue differs from the first of 1741-1750 only in the title-pages being re-dated. After fifteen years studying the flora of Amboina, Rumpf's work was completed for printing in 1670 but was only published eighty years later. After his original drawings were lost to fire in 1687 his son Paul re-worked them and sent the manuscript of the first six books to the Netherlands for printing in 1693, only to have the ship carrying them destroyed. A copy finally reached the VOC in 1697 but it languished in their archives for another thirty-two years before publication until rescued by Jan Burmann, its eventual editor. Rumpf illustrated plants both from Amboina and from surrounding islands, particularly Banda. Hunt 518; Haks & Maris p.229; Bastin & Brommer p.1, notes 13-14. (7)
GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702)
GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702)
GEORG EBERHARD RUMPF (1628-1702) Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas conplectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres & aquaticas, quae in Amboina, et adjacentibus reperiunter insulis Het Auctuarium ofte Vermeerdering op her Amboinsch Kruyd-Boek . Amsterdam: Meinard Uytwerf, 1750, 1755. 6 parts and supplement in 7 vols., 2° (400 x 255mm). Engraved allegorical half-title, portraits of Rumpf and Burmann, title-pages printed in red and black, 8 general titles, 8 part titles, parallel text in Latin and Dutch, 700 engraved plates, some folding, the plates to part I-VI bound in 3 vols., plates to the supplement bound in with text. (Some minimal browning to text.) Contemporary gilt-ruled mottled calf, fully gilt spines, red and black labels, gilt arms on upper and lower covers (rebacked retaining original spines, modern endpapers). Provenance : John Stuart Earl of Bute (1713-1792) (gilt arms) -- Lord Derby, Knowsley Hall (sold in 1977) -- The Robert de Belder Library (Sotheby's 27-18 April, 1987, lot 315). RARE FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, WITH THE SUPPLEMENT, of the most important work on Indonesia of the eighteenth century along with Rumpf's D'Amboinische 1705, and one of the chief early accounts of the flora of the East Indies. This second issue differs from the first of 1741-1750 only in the title-pages being re-dated. After fifteen years studying the flora of Amboina, Rumpf's work was completed for printing in 1670 but was only published eighty years later. After his original drawings were lost to fire in 1687 his son Paul re-worked them and sent the manuscript of the first six books to the Netherlands for printing in 1693, only to have the ship carrying them destroyed. A copy finally reached the VOC in 1697 but it languished in their archives for another thirty-two years before publication until rescued by Jan Burmann, its eventual editor. Rumpf illustrated plants both from Amboina and from surrounding islands, particularly Banda. Hunt 518; Haks & Maris p.229; Bastin & Brommer p.1, notes 13-14. (7)
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