Author: Burman, Johannes (1707-1779); Hendrik Claudius,, artist (1655-1697); Bibliotheque de l'Herbier Bossier, provenance
Title: Joannis Burmanni Med. Doct. & in Horto Medico Amstelaedamensi Botanices Professoris, Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum, Ad Vivum Delineatarum, Iconibus Ac Descriptionibus Illustratarum Decas Prima 10 Parts in 1 Vol. , [with Als. ] First Edition
Description: Amsterdam, Henricum Boussiere, 1738 -1739. 4to. 21 x 26cm. Nineteenth century calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, joints weakened but intact. Loosely inserted is a one page manuscript , signed by the author in 1770 and and a sales receipt dated 1771....viii, 270 pp and 100 numbered plates hors texte..first title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on each title, 100 engraved plates after Hendrik Claudius; plates fresh an dunfoxed.. [Mendelssohn I, 229; Nissen BBI 302; Pritzel 1390]; Great Flower Books 53.;Hunt 508. Plesch 165;9. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 166.Footnotes Provenance: Bibliotheque de L'Herbier Boissier, bookplate..OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 6475636: Pagination: VIII, 22 p.; [23]-46 p.; [47]-76 p.; [77]-106 p.; [2], [107]-142 p.; [2], [143]-167, [1] p.; [4], 169-193, [1] p.; [4], 195-228 p.; [229]-246 p.; [247]-268, [2] p. 20, XXI-C leaves of plates..Rare first and only edition of a primary source on South African flora, especially the Cape of Good Hope area, by Johannes Burmann (1707-79), Dutch physician and botanist at Amsterdam. "The nomenclature is here often in agreement with that of the Hortus Cliffortianus [of Linneaus]; Burmann accepts the Linnaean generic reform as brought about by the Genera plantarum and attempts, though not yet consistently, to coin his phrase names in a purely diagnostic way in the Linnaean manner" (Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 166). The illustrations are drawn from the Codex Simon van der Stel, the Herbarium Witsenianum, and the Codex Witsenii. The artist was most likely the physician Hendrik Claudius of Breslau, who had arrived in Cape Town in 1682 to make watercolours of the local plants, with a medical interest. .

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