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JACQUIN, NIKOLAUS JOSEPH, Baron von. Icones sselectarum stirpium americanarum. Vienna: A. Blumauer, 1797.
Folio, 403 x 250 mm., quarter russia, smooth spine panelled in gilt, edges uncut, large chip to leather on upper cover.
A reissue of the plates only of the 1763 edition. Letterpress title and 4-page index of plates, additional engraved allegorical title, 184 numbered engraved plates of West Indian plants, one folding, text and plates printed on slightly blue-tinted paper. Plant names added in a neat 19th-century hand (in pancil to first 30 plates, in ink for the remainder).
Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3243n. Not in Nissen or Pritzel.
Folio, 403 x 250 mm., quarter russia, smooth spine panelled in gilt, edges uncut, large chip to leather on upper cover.
A reissue of the plates only of the 1763 edition. Letterpress title and 4-page index of plates, additional engraved allegorical title, 184 numbered engraved plates of West Indian plants, one folding, text and plates printed on slightly blue-tinted paper. Plant names added in a neat 19th-century hand (in pancil to first 30 plates, in ink for the remainder).
Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3243n. Not in Nissen or Pritzel.