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KNIPHOF, Johann Hieronymous (1704-1763). Botanica in originali seu herbarium vivum. Edited by Johann Godfried Trampe. Halle an der Saale: J. G. Trampe, 1758-1764
12 centuries in 4 volumes, 2° (380 x 230mm). LARGE-PAPER ISSUE. 12 printed titles, each with decorative hand-coloured nature-printed borders of flower and leaf patterns, 1199 hand-coloured nature-printed plates only (of 1200, lacking one plate in the first six centuries), 14 pp. index leaves, 4 pp. printed dedication to Frederick V King of Denmark and Norway dated 1764 bound in the last century, 20 pp. descriptive text. (Without the general index published in 1767, light offsetting of plates throughout, occasional very light spotting or browning.) Contemporary French red straight-grained morocco, covers with triple-fillet rule borders, rosette corner tools, spines with raised bands, gilt in seven compartments, lettered in two, others ornately tooled with central flower tool within lozenge, gilt inner dentelles, g.e.
A FINE COLOURED COPY OF THE SECOND ISSUE ON LARGE PAPER. ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOTANICAL WORKS WITH NATURE-PRINTED ILLUSTRATIONS and one of the first to cite Linnaeus's seminal work on plants, Species plantarum, published in 1753. Fischer in 1933 recorded 11 copies of the first edition with 12 centuries, and 3 incomplete part works; and for the second edition two complete copies and one incomplete copy. Both editions generally comprise around 1200 plates, although plate counts vary. Fischer specifically points out the errors of Graesse, Pritzel and Brunet in describing copies with 1254 plates. The second edition differs from the first by being on larger paper with titles to each century, the early titles being amended by hand. In this copy the titles of the first four centuries have amendments: numbers one and three are amended from the title page used for the eighth century, and centuries two and four have manuscript volume numbers added to titles dated 1758. The titles to centuries 1, 2 and 3 are bound at the beginning of volume one, while 4, 5 and 6 are placed at the front of volume two, and the indices for the first six centuries have been combined as a 6 pp. list and bound in the beginning of the second volume, the plates being arranged alphabetically in the two volumes. This arrangement varies from the final half of the work where each of the centuries have the titles and indices preceding the plates for each century, the plates being arranged alphabetically in each century. The arrangement of the Botfield copy is as follows: Volume 1, 1st Century, 1761; 2nd 1758; 3rd 1761, plate total 266: Volume 2, 4th 1758; 5th 1758; 6th 1759, plate total 333: Volume 3, 7th 1760; 8th 1761; 9th 1762, each with 100 plates: Volume 4, 10th 1763; 11th 1764; 12th 1764, each with 100 plates.
Kniphof spent most of his life at Erfurt, joined the Academy of Naturalists in Erfurt in 1733, and from 1737 was professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt and from 1745, professor of anatomy, surgery and botany. The earliest nature printing appears to have been made by a Mr Hessel in America in 1707, where he obtained impressions of plants by smoking them with lampblack and pressing them between sheets of paper and gently rubbing the surface. A contemporary of Kniphof, D. Bruckmann certainly took on the process in Europe, but it was Kniphof who, in 1728, in partnership with the printer Johann Michael Funcke, took the process further using printers ink and a flat printing press. His first experimental work Botanica in originali pharmaceutica appeared in 1733, and following further experimentaion culminated in the present monumental work. Hunt describes an early issue of circa 1751 at Erfurt with manuscript titles and captions. An earlier edition 1748-49, with 1186 plates, was printed but not published.
Nissen BBI 1076; Ernst Fischer 'Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1933, pp. 186-213; Dunthorne 170; Pritzel 4752; Stafleu and Cowan 3763; cf. Hunt 534. (4)
12 centuries in 4 volumes, 2° (380 x 230mm). LARGE-PAPER ISSUE. 12 printed titles, each with decorative hand-coloured nature-printed borders of flower and leaf patterns, 1199 hand-coloured nature-printed plates only (of 1200, lacking one plate in the first six centuries), 14 pp. index leaves, 4 pp. printed dedication to Frederick V King of Denmark and Norway dated 1764 bound in the last century, 20 pp. descriptive text. (Without the general index published in 1767, light offsetting of plates throughout, occasional very light spotting or browning.) Contemporary French red straight-grained morocco, covers with triple-fillet rule borders, rosette corner tools, spines with raised bands, gilt in seven compartments, lettered in two, others ornately tooled with central flower tool within lozenge, gilt inner dentelles, g.e.
A FINE COLOURED COPY OF THE SECOND ISSUE ON LARGE PAPER. ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOTANICAL WORKS WITH NATURE-PRINTED ILLUSTRATIONS and one of the first to cite Linnaeus's seminal work on plants, Species plantarum, published in 1753. Fischer in 1933 recorded 11 copies of the first edition with 12 centuries, and 3 incomplete part works; and for the second edition two complete copies and one incomplete copy. Both editions generally comprise around 1200 plates, although plate counts vary. Fischer specifically points out the errors of Graesse, Pritzel and Brunet in describing copies with 1254 plates. The second edition differs from the first by being on larger paper with titles to each century, the early titles being amended by hand. In this copy the titles of the first four centuries have amendments: numbers one and three are amended from the title page used for the eighth century, and centuries two and four have manuscript volume numbers added to titles dated 1758. The titles to centuries 1, 2 and 3 are bound at the beginning of volume one, while 4, 5 and 6 are placed at the front of volume two, and the indices for the first six centuries have been combined as a 6 pp. list and bound in the beginning of the second volume, the plates being arranged alphabetically in the two volumes. This arrangement varies from the final half of the work where each of the centuries have the titles and indices preceding the plates for each century, the plates being arranged alphabetically in each century. The arrangement of the Botfield copy is as follows: Volume 1, 1st Century, 1761; 2nd 1758; 3rd 1761, plate total 266: Volume 2, 4th 1758; 5th 1758; 6th 1759, plate total 333: Volume 3, 7th 1760; 8th 1761; 9th 1762, each with 100 plates: Volume 4, 10th 1763; 11th 1764; 12th 1764, each with 100 plates.
Kniphof spent most of his life at Erfurt, joined the Academy of Naturalists in Erfurt in 1733, and from 1737 was professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt and from 1745, professor of anatomy, surgery and botany. The earliest nature printing appears to have been made by a Mr Hessel in America in 1707, where he obtained impressions of plants by smoking them with lampblack and pressing them between sheets of paper and gently rubbing the surface. A contemporary of Kniphof, D. Bruckmann certainly took on the process in Europe, but it was Kniphof who, in 1728, in partnership with the printer Johann Michael Funcke, took the process further using printers ink and a flat printing press. His first experimental work Botanica in originali pharmaceutica appeared in 1733, and following further experimentaion culminated in the present monumental work. Hunt describes an early issue of circa 1751 at Erfurt with manuscript titles and captions. An earlier edition 1748-49, with 1186 plates, was printed but not published.
Nissen BBI 1076; Ernst Fischer 'Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1933, pp. 186-213; Dunthorne 170; Pritzel 4752; Stafleu and Cowan 3763; cf. Hunt 534. (4)