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JACOB CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER (1718-1790)
Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam nascuntur icones nativis coloribus expressae. Regensburg: H. G. Zunkel (volumes I-II), for the author (volumes III-IV), 1762-1780 [-74]. 4 volumes in 2 (277 x 217mm), 4. Parallel text in Latin and German, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. P. Nusbiegel after I. F. Franck, engraved additional title to volume II printed in sepia, title to volume IV with engraved vignette also in sepia, 330 hand-coloured engraved plates by various engravers after Sophie Beez, I. St. Loibel, and less frequently J. J. Rothermund and Schauer. (A minority of plates with erased pencil note at upper blank margin.) Contemporary German red morocco with gilt border and green-morocco lettering-piece on gilt-panelled spine, silvered endpapers, gilt edges (slight scuff marks and minor staining to covers).
A LARGE AND FINELY-COLOURED COPY OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS ON FUNGI, COMPRISING THE FIRST EDITION OF VOLUMES I-II AND IV and third edition of volume III. A Bavarian botanist, zoologist and clergyman, Schaeffer succeeded in assembling a quite astonishing variety of fungi from a single region, and was among the first to investigate local fungal flora this closely -- the hand-colouring of the plates, the majority after Sophie Beez, is delicate and subtle in its many variations. In contrast to the copies examined by Stafleu and Cowan, the plates numbered 1-199 in this copy are not double-sided but have the text printed on the verso, or are otherwise blank; plates 200-330 are mostly double-sided as is usual. Stafleu and Cowan erroneously call for the engraved title in volume I rather than volume II. Nissen BBI 1744; Stafleu and Cowan V, 10.476. (2)
Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam nascuntur icones nativis coloribus expressae. Regensburg: H. G. Zunkel (volumes I-II), for the author (volumes III-IV), 1762-1780 [-74]. 4 volumes in 2 (277 x 217mm), 4. Parallel text in Latin and German, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. P. Nusbiegel after I. F. Franck, engraved additional title to volume II printed in sepia, title to volume IV with engraved vignette also in sepia, 330 hand-coloured engraved plates by various engravers after Sophie Beez, I. St. Loibel, and less frequently J. J. Rothermund and Schauer. (A minority of plates with erased pencil note at upper blank margin.) Contemporary German red morocco with gilt border and green-morocco lettering-piece on gilt-panelled spine, silvered endpapers, gilt edges (slight scuff marks and minor staining to covers).
A LARGE AND FINELY-COLOURED COPY OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS ON FUNGI, COMPRISING THE FIRST EDITION OF VOLUMES I-II AND IV and third edition of volume III. A Bavarian botanist, zoologist and clergyman, Schaeffer succeeded in assembling a quite astonishing variety of fungi from a single region, and was among the first to investigate local fungal flora this closely -- the hand-colouring of the plates, the majority after Sophie Beez, is delicate and subtle in its many variations. In contrast to the copies examined by Stafleu and Cowan, the plates numbered 1-199 in this copy are not double-sided but have the text printed on the verso, or are otherwise blank; plates 200-330 are mostly double-sided as is usual. Stafleu and Cowan erroneously call for the engraved title in volume I rather than volume II. Nissen BBI 1744; Stafleu and Cowan V, 10.476. (2)