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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikion the last photo, a picture of the horse moquet (left) it will be carefully packed and shipped insured with track and traceplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe cup is unpolished and has no dents or scratchesalthough the races in hilversum were very successful in the beginning, the director of the horse race track reported 'troubles' already inmaybe this was the reason the race of hilversum was held at another famous race track: duindigt in wassenaarnl/nieuws/detail/_de-hilversumse-drafbaan) a very rare large and heavy piece, that does not come to auction oftena couple of incidents later, the council was probably relieved the agreement ended inoppelaar won this race on may 16th of for the third time and became the permanent owner of this rare pieceoppelaar, koudekerk" at the back, the cup has a blue enameled plaque(see photo) it was acquired by the hilversum city-counsel in(https://hilversum-in-kaarten-2they had it engraved with several texts in dutch by a local jeweler: top of the cup: " wisselprijs, aangeboden door het gemeentebestuur hilversum - mei " at the bottom: "definitief gewonnen den 16de mei , moquet, eigcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe challenge cup in solid silver was provided by the town council of hilversum, the epic center of dutch horse-racingthe thoroughbred horse moquet, owned by malso a "v" import mark on the topbecause it was agreed the race would be held in hilversum only,the town council was not amusedit is in excellent and unpolished conditionoppelaar te kouderkerk a/d rijn" and also with "1e winnaar nobilissimus, eig ma rare and large solid silver horse-race sports trophy or challange cup, handed out to the winner of the prestige horse-race in koudekerkthe cup weighs gram and is 38cm highthe cup itself was made by the english silversmith-company james deakin & sons of sheffield and is hallmarked for sterling silver and for the yearthis cup is a very rare find, that was discovered during a house clearance of a dutch trader in gold and silver objects
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Flora virginica exhibens plantas, quas nobilissimus vir dare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifolding engraved map of virginiaquite an association copyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe map further documents clayton's travels, "which show that he was seldom north of the rappahannock or south of the james, and that his knowledge of the mountains did not extend beyond the blue ridgethe boards are somewhat warpedjohn clayton, an english botanist, came to virginia in 170 and travelled extensively throughout the colony, collecting and studying virginia plants, and corresponded with the leading naturalists of his day, gronovius, linnaeus, kalm, collinson, and bartramalso new to this edition are the important map of virginia, showing the extent of clayton s travels and explorations, which were concentrated in the middle tide-water districts, and a valuable bibliography, edited by gronoviusthe interior is vg+ (fine for the age)his researches and herbarium specimens form the basis of the florida virginica, although the final identification of the specimens, and the science and the system of the book were largely the work of dutch naturalist gronoviusindeed, the book offered here appears as number [flora virginica] in the published catalogue of baron’s library offered for sale in ["catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu mgronovio, cuius studio & opera descriptae & in ordinem sexualem systematicum redactae sistunturcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableit is one of the first american botanicals to use the systembaron", paris, ]our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehe was thorough, however, in his exploration of the middle tidewater districts, and recent botanical work shows that as a field botanist he was more astute than has been realized"baron has a famous library, which ran eventually to over titlesthe ex-libris carries the following: "et mihi res, non me rebus submittere conor" ("i force myself to submit things to myself and not to submit to things"), from horace, epistles, i, 1, 19johannes claytonus in virginia crescentes observavit, collegit & obtulit doriginally published in two parts in and , the flora virginica was substantially revised and modernized in this second edition through the introduction of the linnaean system of classification as set forth in the species plantarum ()the book is in superb condition: a few spots on the end papers but the contents have wide margins and are very cleansecond and best edition of one of the earliest modern systematic studies of american flora, and the first virginian flora, based on specimens collected by john clayton at the beginning of the 18th century; this edition the first to include a map of virginiato make this important work even more valuable, it carries the ex-libris bookplate of baron, michel-hyacinthe-théodore ()contemporary half green morocco and somewhat rubbed boardsexceptionally sought after workthe folding map, often torn and browned, is in perfect conditionthe map is "one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world" (maps in virginia)
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