Florilegium Renovatum Et Auctum: Das ist: Vernewertes und vermehrtes Blumenbuch: Von mancherley Gewächsen/ Blumen un[d] Pflantzen/ welche uns deren Schönheit/ lieblicher Geruch/ Gebrauch/ und manigfaltiger Unterschied angenehme machet [...].

4to: letterpress title-allegorical title-5/14 pp.; 168 pl. (letterpress & allegorical title cut out and pasted on flyleaves (?), identical for pp. 5-8 of the text, first quires loose, fold. view of the garden with frayed edges and tears in the folds, most edges frayed, some lvs loose or loosening, some tears in the margin or some larger tears, some underl., some left untouched; missing pl. 11 & 13 from the first part of pl. numb. 1-32, missing pl. 28, 37, 38, 68, 97, 98 & 116 from the second part of pl. numb. 1-142, 2 pl. numb. 50 and last pl. unnumb., some spotting, browning and staining).

Contemp. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (used binding, rubbed and shaved, def. on spine, bookblock detached from spine and upper cover).

Expanded, and much richer edition of the 1612 Florilegium novum by Matthaeus Merian's father-in-law incorporating the original 70 plates of de Bry and augmented with a rendering of the Frankfurt merchant Johannes Schwindt's famed garden on Eschenheimer Gasse. Our copy ill. with an allegorical title, fold. engr. view of the garden of John Schwinden in Frankfurt, 30 pl. illustrating parterres, urns of flowers, gardening tools and plants drawn from "De florum cultura" by Giovanni Battista Ferrari (publ. Rome 1633), and 136 engr. pl. of which some fold. showing engraved plans of garden design and a Wunderkammer of plant species. This work is a real celebration of horticulture providing a visual representation of contemporary European exotic, rare and fragrant plants from the New and Old worlds. There is no explanatory text beyond brief Latin captions. This Wunderkammer shows a great variety of plants: tulips, lilies, narcissi, irises, anemones, roses, sunflowers, cacti, peppers and a yucca. Copies with a full suite of plates are seldom to be found. The final plate depicts a rose which flowered in Prague August 1647.
Ref. VD17 23:297912S. - Nissen (BBI) 274. - Pritzel 1299.
Prov. Ex dono Antonii Glakov Iberi, Romae Dec. 3. 1838 (ms. entry on flyleaf).