Houtkunde, behelzende de afbeeldingen van meest alle bekende, in- en uitlandsche Houten : die tot den huis- en scheepsbouw, tot schrynwerk, werktuigen en gereedschappen, tot verwstoffen en in de geneeskunde, worden gebruikt ; op zulk eene manier, als die door de liefhebbers der natuurlyke historie, tot vermaak en nutttigheid, worden verzameld en bewaard ; met aanwyzing van derzelver afkomst, hoedanigheden en gebruik ; voorgesteld in de natuuriyke tekening en koleuren, volgens de hollandsche, hoogduitsche, engelsche, fransche en latynsche benaamingen en met uitvoerige bladwyzers verrykt.

Main entry:

Sepp, Jan Christiaan, 1739-1811.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Te Amsterdam : By Jan Christiaan Sepp, boekverkooper, 1791.

Description:

[130], lviii pages, c, vi, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
5 added title pages dated 1773, in Dutch, French, English, German, and Latin.
Dutch title: Afbeelding van in- en uitlandsche houten zo wel van boomen als heesters ...
French title: Réprésentation des bois, des arbres & arbrisseaux tant du pays qu'étrangers ...
English title: A representation of inland and foreign wood, as well trees as shrubs ...
German title: Abbildung in- und ausländischer Höltzer ...
Latin title: Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium ...
Description of plates and indexes in Dutch, German, English, French and Latin.
Introduction, 1791, and indexes by M. Houttuyn.
Includes: Supplement of hout-werk = Vervolg op het hout-werk p. [123-130] and plates 1-6 second group.

Summary:

Catalog of wood first written by Houttuyn, a Dutch doctor, in 1773 and re-issued in parts from 1791 to 1795. The first plates were copied from J.M. Seligmann's Icones lignorum.

Subject:

Wood Identification Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Wood Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bois Guides, manuels, etc.
Wood.

Form/genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Added entries:

Houttuyn, M. (Martinus), 1720-1798.
Houttuyn, Martinus, 1720-1798.

Afbeelding van in- en uitlandsche houten zo wel van boomen als heesters ...
Réprésentation des bois, des arbres & arbrisseaux tant du pays qu'étrangers ...
Representation of inland and foreign wood, as well trees as shrubs ...
Abbildung in- und ausländischer Höltzer ...
Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium ...

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Call No.: PO2626
Status: Available

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