.: 0. Amsterdam, Zacharias Romberg, 1736 - 1748, 8 volumes in -folio, 42,5 x 26,5 cm, all title pages printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette, the first plate volume contains a mezzotint frontispiece and two full-page portraits, with 1025 engraved colored plates illustrating over 4000 plants. Complete, uncut copy. Bound in uniform red half chagrin, marbled boards. Two title labels on the spines. Apart from a clear marginal old waterstain affecting ca. 60 plates (in the margin only) in one volume, and a waterstain slightly affecting ca. 30 plates in another volume is this a set in very fine condition. Nissen BBI nr. 2126. This is the Dutch edition of the famous Phytanthoza Iconographia . The plates of this edition are reputedly much better than those of the Regensburger edition because a higher quality paper was used.
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