Flora Malabarica sive Horti Malabarici catalogus exhibens omnium ejusdem plantarum nomina, quae é variis, tum veteribus tum recentioribus botanicis collegit, & in ordinem alphabeticum digessit. Casparus Commelin, med. doctor, et Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Botanicus.
Caspar Commelin (1667/68 - 1731)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3204473
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 71, [1] p. ; fol. Running number: 5853. Shelved and uniform with Reede tot Drakestein's 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Amsterdam, 1678-1703 [i.e. 1693]). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of vol. 1 of Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: "M. 13. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full gold-tooled calf; gilt double fillet border; panel of gilt double and single fillets with gilt decorative cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown goatskin label with gilt title 'Flora Malabarica' on spine. Red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Caspar Commelin (1667/68 - 1731)