Author: Kops, Jan & H[erman] C[hristian] van Hall.
Title: Flora Batava, Afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C.Sepp en Zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops. Deel I - Deel VIII & Algemeen register op de thans uitgegeven acht deelen [...].
Description: Te Amsterdam, J.C.Sepp en Zoon, [1800] - 1844. 8 vols & register volume. 840 fine handcol. engr. plts. Contemp. uniform quarter leather bindings, spines raised in compartments, letterpieces on each spine, speckled marbled boards. 4to. - Later endpapers; all spines rubbed; six volumes with damaged spine ends. Set of the first eight volumes, complete with the separately published register part belonging to the first eight parts: Algemeen register op de thans uitgegeven acht deelen van de Flora Batava, met eenige aanmerkingen; door J.E. van der Trappen [1844]. - - The preacher Jan Kops (1765-1849) started Flora Batava in 1800. After his death, this work, the standard work of Dutch botany, was continued by others and would not be completed until 1934 with the 28th part. The first part shows a list of 232 subscribers. None of them could have imagined that the work would not be completed until 134 years later. - - Cf. FB, p. 63; Landwehr, Colour plates 60; Nissen, BBI 2247; Stafleu & Cowan 3874.

Keywords: Botany Botanie