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HOST, Nikolaus Thomas (1761-1834). Icones et descriptiones graminum Austriacorum. Vienna: M.A. Schmidt, 1801-1809.
4 volumes, 2° (474 x 310mm). 400 hand-coloured engraved plates after J. Ibmayer, those in volume I numbered in the plate, those in volumes II-IV numbered in ink. Green morocco gilt by T. Wright, elaborate roll-tool border of half-sunbursts, swags and thistles, gilt spines directly lettered and with repeated floral motifs, gilt turn-ins, spot-marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
A FINE LARGE COPY. 'No other work on the family can approach this one in magnificence' (Plesch catalogue). Physician to Francis I, to whom the work is dedicated, and first curator of the Garden for Austrian Plants in Belvedere (today the Austrian Alpine garden), Host worked with Ibmayer to produce both this 4-volume work on the grasses of central Europe, and a one-volume work on central European willows, Salix (Vienna, 1828). In contrast to his great predecessor, Schmultzer, Ibmayer almost exclusively painted plants that occured naturally in the Hapsburg dominions. The original specimens for the present work survive and can still be seen in the Österreichische National bibliothek, Vienna. Although this copy does not contain the two preliminary leaves called for by Stafleu and Cowan, it collates perfectly with the Plesch copy. Nissen 935; Great Flower Books p. 60; Stafleu and Cowan 3067. (4)
4 volumes, 2° (474 x 310mm). 400 hand-coloured engraved plates after J. Ibmayer, those in volume I numbered in the plate, those in volumes II-IV numbered in ink. Green morocco gilt by T. Wright, elaborate roll-tool border of half-sunbursts, swags and thistles, gilt spines directly lettered and with repeated floral motifs, gilt turn-ins, spot-marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
A FINE LARGE COPY. 'No other work on the family can approach this one in magnificence' (Plesch catalogue). Physician to Francis I, to whom the work is dedicated, and first curator of the Garden for Austrian Plants in Belvedere (today the Austrian Alpine garden), Host worked with Ibmayer to produce both this 4-volume work on the grasses of central Europe, and a one-volume work on central European willows, Salix (Vienna, 1828). In contrast to his great predecessor, Schmultzer, Ibmayer almost exclusively painted plants that occured naturally in the Hapsburg dominions. The original specimens for the present work survive and can still be seen in the Österreichische National bibliothek, Vienna. Although this copy does not contain the two preliminary leaves called for by Stafleu and Cowan, it collates perfectly with the Plesch copy. Nissen 935; Great Flower Books p. 60; Stafleu and Cowan 3067. (4)
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