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KNIPHOF, Johann Hieronymous (1704-1763). Botanica in originali seu herbarium vivum. Edited by Johann Gottfried Trampe. Halle: J.G. Trampe, 1758-1758-1759-1760-1761-1762-1763-1764-1764.
One of the earliest and most beautiful botanical works with nature-printed illustrations, and one of the first botanical plate books to use Linnaean binomials. Kniphof was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt in 1737 and in 1745 professor of anatomy, surgery and botany. His innovation in the development of nature-printing, developed in conjunction with his first printer Johann Michael Funcke, was to use printer's ink instead of lampblack, and to use a flat printing press. He was also apparently the first to introduce 'a new feature... that of colouring the impressions by hand according to Nature' (Henry Bradbury. On Nature Printing [1855], p.3). In fact, however, most of the colouring of Kniphof's illustrations was produced by variously coloured printing inks, hand-colouring being usually reserved for the flowering portions of the plants. The present work was completed in 1764 with an overall total of 1200 plates. Cf. Dunthorne 170; cf. Ernst Fischer, 'Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1933 pp.186-213; cf. Nissen BBI 1076; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 3763.
12 parts bound in 5 volumes, folio (318 x 202mm). With the full complement of 1188 plates of nature-printed plants, colour-printed, most with added hand-colouring, each with letterpress caption, 9 (of 12) letterpress titles surrounded by hand-coloured and colour-printed nature-printed borders of flowers, leaves and butterflies, titles to vols 1 and 2 with manuscript part numbering, 4pp. dedication to Frederic V of Denmark in part I, a total of 20pp. of preliminary text and 26pp. of indices, part VI with 1p. errata (lacking titles to parts II, IV and V, large chip into image of pl. 24 in cent. I, a minor number of plates trimmed close sometimes just into captions or image, pls 247 and 463 with loss of half of one line of caption, pl. 256 with bottom of image trimmed, plates 49 and 1146 with blank overslips pasted over printed text, plate 631 with letterpress overslip pasted over caption, pl. 130 with very short marginal tear and fraying at edge affecting a few letters of caption, a few plates folded at bottom margin, some general spotting and light offsetting as usual). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red and green morocco gilt lettering pieces (extremities rubbed with some patches of abrasion and worming to covers, some minor nicks to head- and tailcaps).
One of the earliest and most beautiful botanical works with nature-printed illustrations, and one of the first botanical plate books to use Linnaean binomials. Kniphof was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt in 1737 and in 1745 professor of anatomy, surgery and botany. His innovation in the development of nature-printing, developed in conjunction with his first printer Johann Michael Funcke, was to use printer's ink instead of lampblack, and to use a flat printing press. He was also apparently the first to introduce 'a new feature... that of colouring the impressions by hand according to Nature' (Henry Bradbury. On Nature Printing [1855], p.3). In fact, however, most of the colouring of Kniphof's illustrations was produced by variously coloured printing inks, hand-colouring being usually reserved for the flowering portions of the plants. The present work was completed in 1764 with an overall total of 1200 plates. Cf. Dunthorne 170; cf. Ernst Fischer, 'Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1933 pp.186-213; cf. Nissen BBI 1076; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 3763.
12 parts bound in 5 volumes, folio (318 x 202mm). With the full complement of 1188 plates of nature-printed plants, colour-printed, most with added hand-colouring, each with letterpress caption, 9 (of 12) letterpress titles surrounded by hand-coloured and colour-printed nature-printed borders of flowers, leaves and butterflies, titles to vols 1 and 2 with manuscript part numbering, 4pp. dedication to Frederic V of Denmark in part I, a total of 20pp. of preliminary text and 26pp. of indices, part VI with 1p. errata (lacking titles to parts II, IV and V, large chip into image of pl. 24 in cent. I, a minor number of plates trimmed close sometimes just into captions or image, pls 247 and 463 with loss of half of one line of caption, pl. 256 with bottom of image trimmed, plates 49 and 1146 with blank overslips pasted over printed text, plate 631 with letterpress overslip pasted over caption, pl. 130 with very short marginal tear and fraying at edge affecting a few letters of caption, a few plates folded at bottom margin, some general spotting and light offsetting as usual). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red and green morocco gilt lettering pieces (extremities rubbed with some patches of abrasion and worming to covers, some minor nicks to head- and tailcaps).
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