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A series of 16 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 257 x 175 mm, within the borders c. 229 x 146 mm. The only other copy known is in the British Museum, London, Department Prints and Drawings, location 1161.c.25, registration number 1937, 0915.449.37-53. The 16 plates are reported on a website, without illustrations, with Nicolaes Visscher II [1649-1702 = Nicolaes Visscher III] as the publisher and dated c. 1670-1700. Dimensions c. 230 x 145 mm [within the borders]. Bound in an album of ornamental prints. Transferred from British Library in 1937. Several of the flowers are copied in a British series published by John Overton in London in a slightly larger size (247 x 164 mm), without a title; see Hollstein p. 286).A series with the identical title 'Novae.incisae', has been published under 'Amstelodamum Renard 1650', is in the Bavarian State Library, published as an e-book with two different physical descriptions: "45 Platten" [plates] and "[30] Bl.: nur III". The e-book can be ordered via the website. It needs further research to know if this is a similar or an identical series, and if the series is complete and the other 29 plates are by the same hand or by different hands.These data give a confusing view on the artist and publisher as well as the date of publication and its content and eventual other series or prints. Another complication is a better known version or copy of the same prints conversed by Jeronimus Falck (c. 1617 - Gdansk - 1677), published in Hamburg in 1662 as well as by Frederick de Wit in Amsterdam 1662, most probably after the series by Nicolaes Visscher, named 'Novae et exquisitae florum icones. Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maxima cura delineatae et tabulis aenaeis incisae per Jeremiam Falck Hamburgi ano 1662', and the same with a text below: ''t Amsterdam gedruckt bij Frederick de Wit in de Kalverstraat bij den Dam in de Nieue Paskaert' (1). The series shows 12 plates of the 16 by Visscher, inverse and less subtle executed, but at least one copy has 4 plates by another hand added, perhaps later, but all numbered. The other series is named 'Verscheydene Nieuwe Tulpen, en andere Bloemen / Novae et exquisitae Florum Icones', a series of 16 prints with Jeremias Falck as the inventor and Frederick de Widt as the publisher, probably a later edition of an original from the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Both series have been seen in auctions during the last 60 years (2).ReferencesHollstein Text, vol. XXXVIII, Roosendaal & Amsterdam 1991, p. 286, nos. 89-104 [without locations], and vol. XXXIX, p. 238 the illustration of the title page. An unpublished typescript by M. Simon on works by Claes Jansz Visscher of 1958 lists the items with own numbers, see under concordance (taken from Hollstein) and literature.Bridson & White 1990, p. 43, no. C63: "Visscher, Nikolaas J.? [ca. 1625] Novae florum icones. Amsterdam, L. Renard. 2° 2 ; pts. Eng. t.p. & 11+12[?] pl. **Ref. Warner & Brown p. 851. Suites of prints. The first part has unnumbered plates; the second part comprises 12 [or 10] plates, printed on 6 [or 5] sheets. (Warner & Brown describe a copy which has only plates 1-8, 1-12 in the second part.) Cf: Univ. cat. p. 570 (as Flores. - Novae.); BM cat. v9 p. 468 (sa: Flores Novae.1680? 16 pl.)." See under literature.The author and publisherThree seventeenth-century publishers in Amsterdam are named Nicolaes Visscher. Number I is known as Claes Jansz Visscher (1587-1652). He originally illustrated maps from other publishers and started to publish his own atlases, historical- and genre prints, landscapes and portraits, and had an art gallery. He also published four (rare) series of flower still-lifes: after Adriaen Collaert c. 1612, after Giovanni Battista Rosso, and two by his own hand, one dated 1640, next to other copies of flower pots after Elias Verhulst, Johan Mer (1609), Adriaen Collaert (1609, 1616 and 1635), Jan Baptist Jacops and Jacob Savery (3).Other engravers, like Peter Schen. Seller Inventory # 8474
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