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Lot 149
Sale 1165 - The Collected Home
Apr 5, 2023
3:00PM
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$3,780
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Lot Description
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, publisher (Dutch, active ca 1678-1693). 6 engraved plates from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. [Amsterdam, ca 1686].
Comprising: Belilla -- Elengi -- Caunga -- Kaida -- Coddam-pulli -- Kaida Faddi. (Some dampstaining, a few plates browned, all plates laid down).
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, botanist and naturalist, was also a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. His work is one of the earliest comprehensive works on the flora of Asia and the tropics.
Property from the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio












