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Johann Hermann Knoop (1700-1769)
Pomologia, das ist Beschreibungen und Abbildungen der besten Sorten der Aepfel und Birnen, welche in Holland, Deutschland, Frankreich, Engeland ..., translated from Dutch by Georg Leonhart Huth. Nuremberg: Johann Michael Seligmann [and heirs], 1760-1766. 2 volumes in one, 2° (357 x 245mm). 44 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.M. Seligmann after Knoop and J.C. Sänger, woodcut type ornaments. (Title and following leaf damaged and repaired at inner margin.) Contemporary calf-backed boards recovered in later mottled paper, red speckled edges (spine a little chipped and frayed, edges rubbed). Provenance: Kenneth Mackenzie; New York Horticultural Society (bookplate) -- Bernard Quaritch (collation note dated 1980 at end) -- sale, Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, lot 87.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Knoop's Pomologia originally appeared in Dutch in 1758, the author occupying the post of court gardener in Marienberg. The title page to the German edition emphasises how true to life the engravings are ('nach dem Leben abgebildet und mit ihren natürlichen Farben erleuchter'), and the 44 plates undoubtedly achieve a striking degree of naturalism for the period. Nissen BBI 1080; Pritzel 4754; Stafleu and Cowan 3766.
Pomologia, das ist Beschreibungen und Abbildungen der besten Sorten der Aepfel und Birnen, welche in Holland, Deutschland, Frankreich, Engeland ..., translated from Dutch by Georg Leonhart Huth. Nuremberg: Johann Michael Seligmann [and heirs], 1760-1766. 2 volumes in one, 2° (357 x 245mm). 44 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.M. Seligmann after Knoop and J.C. Sänger, woodcut type ornaments. (Title and following leaf damaged and repaired at inner margin.) Contemporary calf-backed boards recovered in later mottled paper, red speckled edges (spine a little chipped and frayed, edges rubbed). Provenance: Kenneth Mackenzie; New York Horticultural Society (bookplate) -- Bernard Quaritch (collation note dated 1980 at end) -- sale, Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, lot 87.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Knoop's Pomologia originally appeared in Dutch in 1758, the author occupying the post of court gardener in Marienberg. The title page to the German edition emphasises how true to life the engravings are ('nach dem Leben abgebildet und mit ihren natürlichen Farben erleuchter'), and the 44 plates undoubtedly achieve a striking degree of naturalism for the period. Nissen BBI 1080; Pritzel 4754; Stafleu and Cowan 3766.
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