LOT 168 Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, FIRST EDITION, Brussels, Émile Tarnier, 1863 HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)
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HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)
Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, FIRST EDITION, 40 chromolithographed plates, some heightened in gum arabic, contemporary green half morocco gilt, g.e. [Great Flower Books, p.60; Nissen BBI 931; Stafleu & Cowan 3025], folio (583 x 430mm.), Brussels, Émile Tarnier, 1863
|RARE FIRST EDITION, with the fine decorative plates very clean. They depict a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants, chosen principally for their eye-catching beauty. In the preface Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885) states that she produced this book in order to clear a debt incurred through family misfortune, and "provide by labour the wants of a numerous family".Provenance: William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol (1832-1913), bookplate.
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