![BRY, Johann Theodor de (1561-1623) and Giovanni Battista FERRARI (1584-1655). Florilegium renovatum et auctum: Das ist: Vernewertes und vermehrtes Blumenbuch. Edited by Matthaeus Merian the elder (1593-1650). Frankfurt-am-Main: Matthaeus Merian, 1641[-1647].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02706_0054_000(bry_johann_theodor_de_and_giovanni_battista_ferrari_florilegium_renova081956).jpg?w=1)
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BRY, Johann Theodor de (1561-1623) and Giovanni Battista FERRARI (1584-1655). Florilegium renovatum et auctum: Das ist: Vernewertes und vermehrtes Blumenbuch. Edited by Matthaeus Merian the elder (1593-1650). Frankfurt-am-Main: Matthaeus Merian, 1641[-1647].
2o (312 x 196mm). Collation: A-B4 (A1r frontispiece, A2r letterpress title, A3r-B1r dedication to Johann Schwinden, B1v-3v Merian's preface to the reader, -B4 description of the Schwinden Garden cancelled); [1-84] (Ferrari plates on rectos only); [9-294 302<31-322 33-384 392<40-422 43-494 (De Bry plates on rectos only except 6 double-page). Engraved frontispiece cut out and mounted, illuminated in colors and liquid gold, publisher's engraved device on title colored and heightened in gold and silver, folding plate of the Schwinden Garden cancelled, 176 ENGRAVED PLATES IN FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORING (8 parterres, one of gardening tools, 23 of flowers, flower arrangements and flowering plants and bushes by Ferrari; and 144 of flowers by De Bry, including 6 double-page engravings, two different plates numbered 50 and the unnumbered engraving of a rose in the garden of the Prague Bernardines, with flowering date 1647, which is the integral final leaf of the last quire). (Two double plates slightly cropped, marginal tears in two double plates repaired, plate 112 backed to repair several tears and stains, some minor stains.)
BINDING: contemporary German gold-tooled olive-brown morocco, sides paneled with intersecting double fillets, quadrilobe-shaped central ornament made up of various small tools including rosettes, stars, a pointillé roll and a bird tool, the same bird, another rosette and two floral tools at the angles, rosette and a fleuron repeated in compartments of the spine, original endpapers, 12 bifolia bound in at the end for notes or adding flower pictures, but left blank except for the last 8 pages of an early manuscript index to the plates, gilt and gauffered edges, (corners and joints somewhat rubbed). Provenance: acquired from Marlborough Rare Books 1967.
Although EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS CONDITION, several other colored copies in elaborate bindings of this German edition and of the slightly earlier Latin edition of the extended Florilegium are known. They were presumably meant for presentation. The copy colored and bound for Martin Wevetzer of the German-language issue (sold at Christie's London, 24 October 1990, lot 231) also lacked the Schwinden Garden plate and description, which may have been deliberately cancelled in copies presented to others than the dedicatee, Johann Schwinden. The Latin De Belder copy (Arcana sale, Christie's London, 27 October 2010, lot 15), also colored, lacks double plate 142, which is present here. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY. Nissen 274; Pritzel 1299; cf. Hunt 237,
2o (312 x 196mm). Collation: A-B4 (A1r frontispiece, A2r letterpress title, A3r-B1r dedication to Johann Schwinden, B1v-3v Merian's preface to the reader, -B4 description of the Schwinden Garden cancelled); [1-84] (Ferrari plates on rectos only); [9-294 302<31-322 33-384 392<40-422 43-494 (De Bry plates on rectos only except 6 double-page). Engraved frontispiece cut out and mounted, illuminated in colors and liquid gold, publisher's engraved device on title colored and heightened in gold and silver, folding plate of the Schwinden Garden cancelled, 176 ENGRAVED PLATES IN FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORING (8 parterres, one of gardening tools, 23 of flowers, flower arrangements and flowering plants and bushes by Ferrari; and 144 of flowers by De Bry, including 6 double-page engravings, two different plates numbered 50 and the unnumbered engraving of a rose in the garden of the Prague Bernardines, with flowering date 1647, which is the integral final leaf of the last quire). (Two double plates slightly cropped, marginal tears in two double plates repaired, plate 112 backed to repair several tears and stains, some minor stains.)
BINDING: contemporary German gold-tooled olive-brown morocco, sides paneled with intersecting double fillets, quadrilobe-shaped central ornament made up of various small tools including rosettes, stars, a pointillé roll and a bird tool, the same bird, another rosette and two floral tools at the angles, rosette and a fleuron repeated in compartments of the spine, original endpapers, 12 bifolia bound in at the end for notes or adding flower pictures, but left blank except for the last 8 pages of an early manuscript index to the plates, gilt and gauffered edges, (corners and joints somewhat rubbed). Provenance: acquired from Marlborough Rare Books 1967.
Although EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS CONDITION, several other colored copies in elaborate bindings of this German edition and of the slightly earlier Latin edition of the extended Florilegium are known. They were presumably meant for presentation. The copy colored and bound for Martin Wevetzer of the German-language issue (sold at Christie's London, 24 October 1990, lot 231) also lacked the Schwinden Garden plate and description, which may have been deliberately cancelled in copies presented to others than the dedicatee, Johann Schwinden. The Latin De Belder copy (Arcana sale, Christie's London, 27 October 2010, lot 15), also colored, lacks double plate 142, which is present here. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY. Nissen 274; Pritzel 1299; cf. Hunt 237,