Johann Hermann Knoop (1700-1769) was the head gardener for the Marie-Louise, Princess of Orange and Nassau at Marienburg outside Leeuwarden. Here he cultivated the finest fruits from England, France and the Low Countries. This classic monograph on fruit is amongst the very first to be published with original coloured plates, and certainly the most popular of the eighteenth century. The ‘first great work [on fruits] of real importance’ (Bunyard). It was first published in Dutch in 1758-63 with 39 engravings each containing several fruit identified by the month of ripening. This is an example of the expanded German edition by Johann Michael Seligmann published 1760-66. The Supplement to this edition is based on the work of ‘Justus Christoph Zinck, a pastor from Meiningen, adding more varieties to those described in the Dutch original’ (Oak Spring). A fine example with clean, crisp plates. Provenance: Kezthely library Hungary with neat library stamp to margin of title-page; Unidentified bookplate of a Viscount’s pasted inside front cover. Nissen BBI, 1080; Oak Spring Pomona 49; Pritzel 4754; Stafleu and Cowan 3766.