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Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium: A Representation of Inland and Foreign Wood
by Martinus Houttuyn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
£4,898.40£4,163.64
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About This Item
A beautiful guide to the identification of woods by their grains and colours, a "Cabinet of Wood."
With 66 fine hand-coloured engraved plates depicting over 550 types of European and exotic woods from India, China and America in cross section, each with a page of wood names in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin.
The title page states that the book was meant "for natural history lovers and keepers of cabinets of natural curiosities."
The book was issued in parts from 1773 and thus the number of plates varies from 24 (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) to 66 (here). The final 1791 edition had a different title and 106 plates, including a 40-plate supplement.
Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) was the son of the German instrument maker and cartographer Christiaan Sepp. J.C. Sepp established himself as a bookseller and publisher specializing in natural history.
Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798), born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. Houttuyn published his own natural history books and also collaborated with Sepp and others.
Condition: Half morocco with gilt decoration and leather label on spine, both hinges starting, marble boards scuffed, endpapers spotted. Binding has been treated with a protective lacquer. Bottom 4cm cut from German title page, interior bright and fresh with crisp engravings and delicate hand-colour.
With 66 fine hand-coloured engraved plates depicting over 550 types of European and exotic woods from India, China and America in cross section, each with a page of wood names in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin.
The title page states that the book was meant "for natural history lovers and keepers of cabinets of natural curiosities."
The book was issued in parts from 1773 and thus the number of plates varies from 24 (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) to 66 (here). The final 1791 edition had a different title and 106 plates, including a 40-plate supplement.
Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) was the son of the German instrument maker and cartographer Christiaan Sepp. J.C. Sepp established himself as a bookseller and publisher specializing in natural history.
Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798), born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. Houttuyn published his own natural history books and also collaborated with Sepp and others.
Condition: Half morocco with gilt decoration and leather label on spine, both hinges starting, marble boards scuffed, endpapers spotted. Binding has been treated with a protective lacquer. Bottom 4cm cut from German title page, interior bright and fresh with crisp engravings and delicate hand-colour.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo170
- Title
- Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium
- Author
- Martinus Houttuyn
- Illustrator
- Jan Christiaan Sepp
- Format/Binding
- Half morocco, leather label on spine, marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jan Christiaan Sepp
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1773
- Size
- 4to, 28 x 23
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Houttuyn, Icones Lignorum, wood, timber, handcoloured, copperplate engraving, cabinet of curiosities
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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- Fine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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