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PASSE (CRISPIJN VAN DE), HORTUS FLORIDUS IN QUO RARIORUM & MINUS VULGARIUM FLORUM ICONES AD VIVAM VERAMQUE FORMAM ACCURATISSIME DELINEATAE, five parts in one, engraved title, title in English, dedication; part one - spring with nine text pages and 51 plates, (41 as per list and 43-51 followed by garden plate (lacking a plate 42); part two - summer with four text pages and 21 plates (20 numbered plus garden plate); part three - autumn with six text pages and 22 numbered plates and Epigramma plate (lacking plate 9, 16, 19); part four - winter with four text pages and 12 numbered plates followed by a poem initialled T.W., Arnhem, J. Jansson 1614 and Utrecht, Salmon de Roy, 1615; bound with, ALTERA PARS HORTI FLORIDI INQUA PRAETER FLORES VARIA ETIAM COMPRAEHENDUNTUR, with 60 plates (lacking plate for numbers 104/105), all plates with later hand colouring, contemporary full tan calf with embossed and gilt diamond to both boards. Provenance: THE LLOYDS COPY. The book is entered for auction by The Lloyd family of Quakers, iron merchants and bankers. It is inscribed twice on the engraved title 'Charles Lloyd of Dolobrans' book', again on the English title and also 'Sampson Lloyd, Jun ex done S. Gulson, 2 January 1749'. Charles and Sampson II were the sons of Sampson Lloyd I, a Welsh Quaker. Sampson Lloyd II (1699-1779) was the co-founder, with John Taylor of Taylors & Lloyds bank in 1765. Tipped in on the front fly leaf is a 19th century note which reads: This book is supposed to have belonged originally to the Charles Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire (1st of that name born 1613) which is mentioned in Meyrick's edition of Lewis Dwyn Heraldic Visitations of Seats (Vol 1. Page 332) as a well known genealogist and antiquarian. *Richard Lloyd of Allesley Warwickshire (see name back of this page) died 1830 and left it to his son Richard Harman Lloyd of London who died 1867. Henry Lloyd ?? of the last named R. H Lloyd owned it from 1873. Book plate armorial for Henry Lloyd, Dolobran on the front board.