Shelfmark
Sa2.3.02
Author
Title
Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens, serenissimo et potentissimo principi, ac domino, domino Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariæ regi florentissimo, &c. fructus sæculo promittenti Augustissimos, emissa in publicum a R.P. Michaele Boym, Societatis Iesu Sacerdote & a domo professa eiusdem societatis Viennæ majestati suæ unà cum foelicissimi anni apprecatione oblata.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Viennæ : Austriæ, typis Matthæi Rictii, M. DC. LVI [1656].
Physical description
[70]p : 23 plates ; Fo.
Note
First edition, first issue, without the 2-leaf poem by Rautenstein which was inserted at a later date.
Note
Hand-coloured plates.
Citation/references note
Walravens 190; Cordier 442; Nissen BB1; Hunt 265
Provenance
Given by Nicholas Kessler in 2007.
Provenance
"Collegii Leopoldini Soctis Jesu Neostadii Austria 1699" with shelf mark 11.531 inscribed on title-page. I.e. the Jesuit college founded by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Wiener Neustadt in 1614.
Binding
18th-century half mid brown mottled goat; boards covered in brown paste paper. In 21st-century case: half brown calf over brown marbled paper.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: S.108, S.104, Bl.4.26.
Subject
Botany Early works to 1800 China.
Subject
Natural history Early works to 1800 China.
Subject
China Antiquities.
Added entry--name
Rickhes, Matthäus printer.
Added entry--place
Austria Vienna.
Identifier
B18497