Bruggeman, L.

Tuinboek voor De Tropen. Met 292 Afbeeldingen door Ojong Soerjadi.

Amsterdam, De Spiegel / C.P.J Van Der Peet, 1955. 18.5 cm x 24 cm. V, 221 pages. 292 colour plates throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good+ condition with some signs of external wear. Foxing evident throughout and mostly to the endpapers and pastedowns. Some notes in pencil on endpaper. The many colour illustrations of the plants are in good condition as well.

Tuinboek voor de Tropen was first published under the title of “Indisch Tuinboek” in 1938 by the same author. It covers the cultivation, nomenclature and descriptions of a large variety of tropical plants of Indonesia.

Marie Louise Abraham Bruggeman curated the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Jakarta in the early to mid 20th Century. In C.1940 she had collaborated with Van Dorp’s bookshop, Bandung to publish Indische Tuinbloemen for which one had to collect individul pictures of the flowers named in the book. For every picture purchased the purchaser recieved a seed for that flower. So popular was this publication that Van Dorp’s sold over one million seeds. (excerpt from mooibandoeng.com)

The beautiful colour prints depicting the plants and flowers were by the Indonesian illustrator Ojong Soerjadi.

• Keywords: Botanical · Botany – Rare · Flora · Horticulture · Indonesia · Tropical Plants
• Language: Dutch
• Inventory Number: 60249AB

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