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Carl Ludwig Wildenow (1765-18120)
Historia Amaranthorum. Zurich: J.J. Thurneisen (of Basle) for Ziegler & Son, 1790. 2° (417 x 270mm). Dedication to Sir Joseph Banks. 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.R. Schellenberg. (Some spotting to text, heavier to title and dedication, light surface soiling to upper blank margin pf plate III.) Contemporary marbled-paper boards, the flat spine with blue morocco lettering-piece (some discolouration, extremities rubbed), modern cloth box, green morocco 'spine' label. Provenance: Kenneth K.Mackenzie (bequest, in 1934, to); Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate noting gift, blindstamp to lower blank margin of final plate).
FIRST EDITION, WITH THE FIRST ISSUE TITLE PAGE, OF THIS FINE MONOGRAPH ON THE AMARANTH: a genus of highly decorative plants which include examples from South Africa, Australia, and North and Central America, and India. Carl Wildenow, a noted German botanist, served as professor of natural philosophy at the Berlin Collegium and director of the Berlin Botanical Garden, finally becoming professor of botany at the newly established University of Berlin in 1810. He published numerous works relating to medical botany, gardens, and plants in general and his influence was considerable. He is considered to have been one of the founders of the nineteenth-century school of botany and numbered both Humboldt and Link amongst his students. Nissen calls for a frontispiece but this appears to be an error, the Plesch catalogue states that it was never issued. The work as a whole was re-issued in 1798 with a new title page. Dunthorne 332; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.151 (1798 title page); Nissen BBI 2156; Pritzel 10276; Stafleu & Cowan 17.652.
Historia Amaranthorum. Zurich: J.J. Thurneisen (of Basle) for Ziegler & Son, 1790. 2° (417 x 270mm). Dedication to Sir Joseph Banks. 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.R. Schellenberg. (Some spotting to text, heavier to title and dedication, light surface soiling to upper blank margin pf plate III.) Contemporary marbled-paper boards, the flat spine with blue morocco lettering-piece (some discolouration, extremities rubbed), modern cloth box, green morocco 'spine' label. Provenance: Kenneth K.Mackenzie (bequest, in 1934, to); Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate noting gift, blindstamp to lower blank margin of final plate).
FIRST EDITION, WITH THE FIRST ISSUE TITLE PAGE, OF THIS FINE MONOGRAPH ON THE AMARANTH: a genus of highly decorative plants which include examples from South Africa, Australia, and North and Central America, and India. Carl Wildenow, a noted German botanist, served as professor of natural philosophy at the Berlin Collegium and director of the Berlin Botanical Garden, finally becoming professor of botany at the newly established University of Berlin in 1810. He published numerous works relating to medical botany, gardens, and plants in general and his influence was considerable. He is considered to have been one of the founders of the nineteenth-century school of botany and numbered both Humboldt and Link amongst his students. Nissen calls for a frontispiece but this appears to be an error, the Plesch catalogue states that it was never issued. The work as a whole was re-issued in 1798 with a new title page. Dunthorne 332; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.151 (1798 title page); Nissen BBI 2156; Pritzel 10276; Stafleu & Cowan 17.652.
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