80/2357 [Botany]. Voorhelm, G. Traité sur la jacinte. Contenant la manière de la cultiver suivant l'expérience qui en a été faite par George Voorhelm, Fleuriste d'Harlem. Haarlem, C.H. Bohn, 1762, 2nd revised and corrected ed., (3),8-13,(3),127,(1)p. , engr. portrait of the author, 2 fold. engr. plates of hyacinths, 1 plate depicting a bulb-flowerbed, contemp. wr.

- Lacks, as usual/ always(?) in the second edition, leaf *3 (this was the dedication to Marco comte d'Odescalqui in the first edition and has been omitted in this edition); owner's stamp on first free endpaper and library stamp and ticket on title; 1 fold. plate w. old repaired tear; first ±20p. w. brown stain in blank margin. Lacks portion at foot of spine and frontwrapper.

= Pritzel 9852; Nissen, BBI 2079N; Krelage p.586, 605, 608 and passim. On the author at length T.T. Mantel, ''Waardevol oud papier uit Haarlem''. In: Waardevol oud papier. Haarlem, 1996, p.215-228. Ex libris Med. Dr. C. Rasch. With contemp. owner's entry on the title-p.: "Bibliotheca monasterii Sancti Martini Tornaci dedicavit R.D. Baclow supprior 1776".