4to (298 x 241 mm). Titles and text in Dutch, English, German, French and Latin; sectional title for the Supplement. Frontispiece and 106 engraved plates of cross-sections of wood, all hand-colored, including frontispiece that is bound in before plates; with the folding errata leaf bound in. (Small dampstain in frontispiece margin.) 19th-century half olive morocco, marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering-piece in second, others with gilt centerpieces, top edge gilt (boards slightly bowed, spine sunned with a bit of rubbing near foot). Provenance: Massachusetts Horticulture Society, Stickney Fund (bookplate dated 1892; regulation slip tipped in; small rubberstamp in plate margins).

A CLEAN COPY OF THIS RARE AND FAMOUS WORK INCLUDING THE SUPPLEMENT. Based on the "Wood Cabinets" assembled by the Dutch physician Houttuyn and the Reverend Hazeu. The work was published in eighteen parts over a period of 22 years. Primarily based on Seligman's Abbildungen In- und Ausländischer Hölzer (Nuremberg 1773-1778), illustrated with 48 plates only, Jan Christiaan Sepp added another 58 engravings which concentrated on timbers from the West Indies, drawn from the cabinet of the Reverend Hazeu at Rotterdam. Other "samples are taken from the collection of Martinus Houttuyn, who added a new title-page" (Landwehr). Brunet V:291; Landwehr 84; Nissen BBI 939; Oak Spring Sylva 6.