Creator
Carl Linnaeus
Title
Hortus Cliffortianus.
Coverage
Amsterdam
Publisher
Published Privately
Date
1737/8
Description
The only edition of the first detailed catalogue of cultivated plants applying the Linnaean system of plant classification. The wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant George Clifford employed Linnaeus as superintendent of his botanical garden near Haarlem from 1735 to 1738. Clifford paid for the publication, illustrated with 36 fine plates, mostly designed by Georg Ehret, arguably the greatest Botanical Artist of the 1700s, producing one of the most spectacular flower books of the period.
Relation
From the collection of Wally Jansen