Rare, Early Work on Hyacinth

VOORHELM, George.  TRAITE SUR LA JACINTE.

Harlem: I. & J. Enschede, 1752. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. (x), 121 pages, 3 engraved plates, of which 2 are folding. First edition. [Hunt, 545].

Rare.  OCLC cites copies at Hunt, Holden Arboretum, and Michigan State only, and we could not find copies selling at auction in the past twenty-five years.  Voorhelm, a gardener and nurseryman, wrote the first works on the hyacinth.  This book includes a twelve-page catalogue of over three hundred varieties.  An unsophisticated, uncut, copy, in a considerably rubbed marbled wrapper.  Some contemporary annotations in text.

$1,250.00