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BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (c.1700-1758). Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est . . . collectio stirpium quae in pharmacopoliis ad medicum usum asservantur. Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann and Christian de Launoy for Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger, [1747-] 1750-1765.
5 volumes (only of 6), 2° (360 x 230mm). Parallel text in Latin and German. Parallel letterpress titles to vols. I-IV, hand-coloured engraved title to each volume (2 in vol. V), 511 HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES by Eisenberger. (Lacking vol. VI, title pages and most of text for vol. V, plates 75-100 with some staining to inner margin.) Near-uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in seven compartments with morocco and vellum lettering-pieces (slightly scuffed, some chips to spines, vol. I with neat repairs to head and foot of spine).
An expanded and "greatly superior" (Stafleu) version of Elizabeth Blackwell's herbarium, which she originally published in London in 1737 in order to raise enough money to rescue her husband from debtor's prison. A copy fell into the hands of Christoph Jakob Trew, who conceived and directed the publication of this Nuremberg edition, described by Hunt as "a noble monument to a pioneering lady botanist" (note to 510, II.2, p.184). Trew wrote the text for the first 90 plates: thereafter it was supervised by C. G. Ludwig of Leipzig and written by leading botanists from Leipzig and Wittenberg. Volume V of this copy lacks the titles, but is supplied instead with the German title for the first installment of the herbarium or Kräuter-Buch, dated 1747, and issued by Eisenberger on a subscription basis. (The text for this variant title is given in the Nissen's supplement to the BBI, p. 20, no. 169.) The first part of the herbarium apparently contained 16 plates, although Nissen states that each installment comprised only 15. Although the present copy lacks volume VI, plates 501-6, normally part of vol. VI, are here bound at the back of volume V. Nissen BBI 169; Stafleu and Cowan 546. Sold not subject to return. (5)
5 volumes (only of 6), 2° (360 x 230mm). Parallel text in Latin and German. Parallel letterpress titles to vols. I-IV, hand-coloured engraved title to each volume (2 in vol. V), 511 HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES by Eisenberger. (Lacking vol. VI, title pages and most of text for vol. V, plates 75-100 with some staining to inner margin.) Near-uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in seven compartments with morocco and vellum lettering-pieces (slightly scuffed, some chips to spines, vol. I with neat repairs to head and foot of spine).
An expanded and "greatly superior" (Stafleu) version of Elizabeth Blackwell's herbarium, which she originally published in London in 1737 in order to raise enough money to rescue her husband from debtor's prison. A copy fell into the hands of Christoph Jakob Trew, who conceived and directed the publication of this Nuremberg edition, described by Hunt as "a noble monument to a pioneering lady botanist" (note to 510, II.2, p.184). Trew wrote the text for the first 90 plates: thereafter it was supervised by C. G. Ludwig of Leipzig and written by leading botanists from Leipzig and Wittenberg. Volume V of this copy lacks the titles, but is supplied instead with the German title for the first installment of the herbarium or Kräuter-Buch, dated 1747, and issued by Eisenberger on a subscription basis. (The text for this variant title is given in the Nissen's supplement to the BBI, p. 20, no. 169.) The first part of the herbarium apparently contained 16 plates, although Nissen states that each installment comprised only 15. Although the present copy lacks volume VI, plates 501-6, normally part of vol. VI, are here bound at the back of volume V. Nissen BBI 169; Stafleu and Cowan 546. Sold not subject to return. (5)