RUMPHIA,// SIVE// COMMENTATIONES BOTANICAE// IMPRIMIS DE PLANTIS INDIAE ORIENTALIS,// TUM PENITUS INCOGNITIS TUM QUAE IN LIBRIS// RHEEDII, RUMPHII, ROXBURGHII, WALLICHII,// ALIORUM, RECENSENTUR// SCRIPSIT C.L.BLUME COGNIMINE RHUMPHIUS. // TOMUS TERTIUS. // [device ] // LUGDUNI-BATAVORUM, // IMPENSIS AUCTORIS. // PROSTAT AMSTELODAMI, APUD C.G. SULPKE - BRUXELLIS, APUD G.SEVEREYNS (RUE DE LOUVAIN, 108bis).//- PARISIIS, APUD C.RORET. // - // MDCCCXLVII.

Lugduni-Batavorum /Leiden: C.G. Sulpke, c.1847-48. . Upper margins of 5 final plates are trimmed. This desirable work is exceedingly rare and its text and magnificent illustrations in very clean and crisp condition. . Binding: Superb contemporary gilt ornamented morocco; spine raised with five bands, compartments in ornamental gilt, with gilt title on two and four; all edges gilt. , Notes: The German-Dutch botanist Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862) was director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden, and spent most of his working life in the Dutch East Indies studying the indigenous flora, especially orchids.
The German botanist Karl Ludwig or Karel Lodewijk Blume (1796–1862) studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, serving as director of the Leiden Rijksherbariumn.... He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands, specializing on orchids. From 1823 to 1826 Blume served as Deputy Director of Agriculture at the botanical gardens in Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java; in 1827 correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands; in 1855, appointed foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Rumphia was published in between 1835 and 1848 in four volumes.
, Size: Folio (440x270mm)., Illustration: Illustrated titles with device, seventy-four (74) lithographed plates, including the uncoloured portrait of Blume by Simonau after Madou and 52 hand-coloured. The engravings include four uncoloured views: 'Regio Montana...', 'Curia Indiae…', ‘Nova Curia', 'Kumbang-Kuning'; furthermore tavolas # 139-154, 156-157, 157B-163, 163B-167, 167B-170, 172, 172B, 172C, 173 in Volume III; and Tab. 174-176, 176B, 176C-178, 178B, 178C, 179-185, 187-200B, 200, in Vol IV. Twelve (12) are oversize folding tavolas. , Volume: Vols. 3 & 4 (of four) on, References: Great Flower Books: p50; Nissen: 178; Pritzel: 846. Stafleu: 566, Pages: Ll: Vol III: bl. (2), half-title, portrait, title, preface, 1-224, [ill]; Vol IV: Half-title, title with device, 1-75, [ill.], bl., Category: Book Natural History