Botany - Java - Asia - Indonesia - Lot 460

Botany - Java - Asia - Indonesia BLUME (Carl Ludwig) Flora Javae nec non Insularum Adjacentium, auctore Carolo Ludovico Blume. Adjutore Joanne Baptista FISCHER, cum Tabulis Lapidi aerique incisis. Bruxellis, Frank, Typis H. Remy, 1828-1851 3 volumes in folio: 4f, X, 108pp, LIII plates - 12pp, II plates - 14pp, II plates - 46pp, XXIV plates; 81 plates out of text / 24pp, VI plates (including 3 double-page plates) - 16pp, V plates - 40pp, XXXII plates (including one double-page plate) - 40pp, XII (including 2 double-page spreads) - 8pp, I plate - 26pp, 6 double-page spreads - 18pp, V plates - XVII plates (numbered I-XXIV and missing); i.e. 84 plates out of text / 196pp, XCVI plates (including 2 double-page spreads). A total of 261 plates, most in color, some with double pages. Mounted on tabs. Modern pastiche burgundy chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, Duseuil-style boards with wide garland framed with double and triple gilt fillets, gilt roulettes on the edges, inner gilt garlands, gilt heads. In slipcases with some faces more or less broken (pieces present). A good copy. The naturalist Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862) made a major contribution to the research and identification of Indian flora; the work contains many superb color plates. Most were published at the expense, or at least with the support, of the Dutch government. Original edition incomplete with the fourth volume or Nova Series on Orchids (Nissen 174). Provenance: Printed bookplate F. W. T. HUNGER (April 3, 1874 - Amsterdam). Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias Hunger (1874-1952) was a Dutch botanist and historian. Born in Amsterdam, he studied botany in Leiden and obtained his doctorate. In 1899, he was appointed to the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg, West Java, to research the living conditions, cultivation and diseases of tropical crops. He remained there until 1911. Back in the Netherlands, he was a private lecturer in the history of biology at Leiden University between 1917 and 1923.