PAULLI, SIMON. Flora Danica. It is: Danish Herb Book: Udi huilcken after his Kongl: Mayst. Most High Remembrance, Christiani IV... Commands... not all herbalistic historical descriptions, powers and actions,... but endocsa medical judgments to all matters pertaining to them, briefly and clearly indicated: so that it is both a book of herbs and a book of medicine... Copenhagen, Melchiore Martzan, 1647-1648.
4th (200 x 165 mm). Engraved title leaf, printed title leaf, (34) + A4-Y4, Z2-Z4, Aa2-Fffff2, a4-m4, (Z1, Aa1, the engraved portrait and 4 engraved part-title leaves missing); 393, (2), (1 blank) (A4-Dddd2), and a large number of full-page woodcuts on plants (1 part-title leaf missing). (In total, the book contains about 650 leaves). Parchment ribbon, relatively modern marbled front and post leaves. A number of owner signatures on the cover sheet, among others. and. “Lars Knud Koppang” and “Koppang i Hameren 1827".
One of the main works of Danish botanical literature, and one of the most beautiful Danish prints of the time.
Condition
NOT COMPLETE, see text above. Worn and tarnished ribbon bound about in modern times with preserved leather on the binders, the engraved title leaf and the first and last leaves with as well as some other leaves with - partly large - losses and repairs, one of the repairs with handwritten text dated 1818. Sunny and mottled inlay.
PAULLI, SIMON. Flora Danica. It is: Danish Herb Book: Udi huilcken after his Kongl: Mayst. Most High Remembrance, Christiani IV... Commands... not all herbalistic historical descriptions, powers and actions,... but endocsa medical judgments to all matters pertaining to them, briefly and clearly indicated: so that it is both a book of herbs and a book of medicine... Copenhagen, Melchiore Martzan, 1647-1648.
4th (200 x 165 mm). Engraved title leaf, printed title leaf, (34) + A4-Y4, Z2-Z4, Aa2-Fffff2, a4-m4, (Z1, Aa1, the engraved portrait and 4 engraved part-title leaves missing); 393, (2), (1 blank) (A4-Dddd2), and a large number of full-page woodcuts on plants (1 part-title leaf missing). (In total, the book contains about 650 leaves). Parchment ribbon, relatively modern marbled front and post leaves. A number of owner signatures on the cover sheet, among others. and. “Lars Knud Koppang” and “Koppang i Hameren 1827".
One of the main works of Danish botanical literature, and one of the most beautiful Danish prints of the time.
Condition
NOT COMPLETE, see text above. Worn and tarnished ribbon bound about in modern times with preserved leather on the binders, the engraved title leaf and the first and last leaves with as well as some other leaves with - partly large - losses and repairs, one of the repairs with handwritten text dated 1818. Sunny and mottled inlay.
