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MIKAN, JOHANN CHRISTIAN. Delectus florae et faunae Brasiliensis. Vienna: Anton Strauss, for the author, [1820-] 1825.
Large folio, 575 x 414 mm., contemporary half roan, original front and rear printed wrappers for fascicles 1, 2 and 4 preserved at end, rebacked using original spine, corners bumped, lower outer corners of a few text leaves and plates bruised, occasional very slight discoloration.
FIRST EDITION. 24 lithographed plates, 23 of them colored (no. 11 uncolored), after Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, Brunner, Buchberger, Funk, Sandler, Satory and Stoll by Erminy, Knapp, Kold and Satory, 12 of them relating to botanical subjects.
A rare account of Brazilian flowers and animals by one of the team of Austrian explorers in Brazil which included Martius, Natterer, Pohl and Spix.
Borba de Moraes 570; Great Flower Books, p. 68; Nissen BBI 1367; Nissen ZBI 2815; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6006.
Provenance: Robert James Shuttleworth (botanist and conchologist) -- Frederick Du Cane Godman (ornithologist, co-editor of Biologia Centrali-Americana) -- H. Bradley Martin (sale, Sotheby's New York, 7 June 1989, lot 163); bookplates of all three.
Large folio, 575 x 414 mm., contemporary half roan, original front and rear printed wrappers for fascicles 1, 2 and 4 preserved at end, rebacked using original spine, corners bumped, lower outer corners of a few text leaves and plates bruised, occasional very slight discoloration.
FIRST EDITION. 24 lithographed plates, 23 of them colored (no. 11 uncolored), after Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, Brunner, Buchberger, Funk, Sandler, Satory and Stoll by Erminy, Knapp, Kold and Satory, 12 of them relating to botanical subjects.
A rare account of Brazilian flowers and animals by one of the team of Austrian explorers in Brazil which included Martius, Natterer, Pohl and Spix.
Borba de Moraes 570; Great Flower Books, p. 68; Nissen BBI 1367; Nissen ZBI 2815; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6006.
Provenance: Robert James Shuttleworth (botanist and conchologist) -- Frederick Du Cane Godman (ornithologist, co-editor of Biologia Centrali-Americana) -- H. Bradley Martin (sale, Sotheby's New York, 7 June 1989, lot 163); bookplates of all three.