BIBLIOGRAPHY. 145 



1601. C. CLUSIUS. * Rariorum plantarum Historia. Antwerp. 



Many details of the early history of the tulip in western Europe. 

 An indispensable volume for the historian. Both wild species and 

 garden forms are included. 



1608. PIERRE VALLET. Le Jardin du roy tres chrestien Henry IV. 



Paris. 



Six tulips are figured. From their long stems they look like late 

 flowering varieties. 



In the later editions published in the reigns of Louis XIII. and 

 Louis XIV. three pages of tulips are added. 



1610. SEB. SCHEDEL. Calendarium. 



A manuscript at Kew, in which the first indication of a flower with 

 split petals or a " parrot tulip " is given. 



1611. C. CLUSIUS. Curae posteriores, &c. Antwerp. 



Information about T. Clusiana (persica Clus.) and other species. 



1612. J. T. DE BRY. Florilegium novum. 



Early pictures of tulips. 



1613. BASILIUS BESLER. Hortus Eystettensis. Nurnberg. 



The number and variety of tulips illustrated at this early date are of 

 great historical value. Included are double flowers and also branching 

 tulips. 



1614. CRISPIN DE PAS (PASSAEUS). * Hortus Floridus. Arnheim. 



A book of extraordinarily beautiful plates of flowers, Tulips are 

 well represented, especially in those copies which have the fourteen 

 extra tulip plates. The pointed petals are characteristic of the 

 period. 



There are both English and French editions. 



1616. JEAN FRANEAU. Jardin d'Hyver ou Cabinet des Fleurs. 



Douai. 



A poem describing the fashionable flowers of the period, with copper- 

 plate illustrations. Thirty tulips are figured and more are described, 

 showing how much tulips were thought of by gardeners before 

 the period of the mania. The author's personal notes are very 

 interesting. 



1617. Author unknown. Traite compendieux et abrege des Tulippes 



et de leurs di verses sortes et especes, &c. Paris. 



1620. LANGLOIS (L'ANGLOis). Livre des Fleurs ou sont represented 



touttes sortes des Tulippes, Narcisses, Iris, &c. &c. Paris. 

 A rare flower-book of the pre-mania period. Tulips occupy the 

 greater part of the work. Its publication in Paris shows that the 

 tulip had at this date become fashionable there. 



1621. PETRUS HONDIUS. Dapes inemptae, Of de Moufe-schans. 



Leiden. 



In Part III. (Bloem-Hof), under the head of tulips, the author laments 

 the spread of tulip-growing in the gardens of Holland, and points out 

 that it is the sign of a fool only to cultivate one flower " Month by 

 month and week by week, my garden gives ne"w sights." 



1622-25. NICOLAS WASSENAER. Historisch Verhael aller gedenk- 

 waerdigher Geschiedenissen. (Volumes v., vii., and ix.) 

 Amsterdam. 



Historical details about the introduction of the garden tulip into 

 Holland. 



* These books can be consulted in the Lindley Library. 



