Hortus Bosianus quoad exotica solùm descriptus
By: à D. Paulo Ammanno P.P.
Publisher: Typis Krügerianis
Published: 1686
Place of publication: Lipsiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Gardens
Other titles: Hortus Bosianus qvoad exotica solùm descriptus; Hortus Bosanius
Notes: Signatures: [A]-E⁴ F⁴( -F4).

"[C]ontain[s] critical descriptions of the exotic plants to be found in the garden of the Leipzig merchant Caspar Bose. The garden was situated just outside the "Grimmischen Tor" (Leipzig's eastern gate) and was widely considered one of the most important Renaissance gardens in the second half of the 17th century, developing into a contemporary Baroque garden - combining a botanical and "Lust" garden - fully ornamented with statues, fountains and grottos and a spectacular orangery. The author, Paolo Ammano (d. 1691), was the director of the botanical garden of the University of Leipzig and professor of botany. Caspar Bose (1645-1700). a wealthy merchant, director of a well-known  "Silberwahren-Maufaktur" and city counclllor of Leipzig, founded the garden. His family was on friendly terms with Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived in the house next to their city house, the "Bosehaus", on the Thomaskirchhof. Bose corresponded with botanists from all over Europe and his garden attracted full attention."--bookseller Antiquariaat Forum description.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 141

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 14:017370C

Gothein, Geschichte der Gartenkunst (1914), v. 2: 257-

Krauch, Heinz-Dieter and Clemens Alexander Wimmer. "Zur Bedeutung des Boeschen Gartens in Leipzig fur Pflanzeneinfurhung", in: Zandera, v. 15 (2000)  1-14

Wiese, and Anja Fritz. Bachs Nachbarn : die Familie Bose: Ausstellungskatalog des Bach-Museum Leipzig (2005).

Lib. copy has two additional large folding plates: folded plate [1]: Eigentloiicher Grundriss des Bossischen Garten vor den Grimmischen Thor zu Leipzig. Ao. 1700, with legend; Elias Peine gärtner  del and J. C. Oberdorffer sc.; folded plate [2] Eigentliche Abbildung der Americanischen Aloe; Scalla von io. fuss.

Lib. copy former owners: with the blind library stamp on the title page of Ruth and Walter Middelmann .