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TREW, Christoph Jakob (1695-1769) and Benedict Christian VOGEL (1745-1825). Plantae Selectae. [Nuremberg]: 1750-1773.
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TREW, Christoph Jakob (1695-1769) and Benedict Christian VOGEL (1745-1825). Plantae Selectae. [Nuremberg]: 1750-1773.
2o (457 x 290 mm and smaller). Engraved title, heightened in red and gold, 68 (of 100) hand-colored engraved plates by Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret, each with the first word of the caption heightened in gold (plates trimmed, affecting plate margins and a few images). Modern boards (worn). Provenance: Liverpool, Public Library (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, one of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical works. Christoph Trew, a physician and amateur botanist, had for a number of years been an admirer of Ehret's work. Ehret, a brilliant botanical artist, was born in Heidelberg in 1710 and originally worked as a gardener, practicing drawing in his spare time. His artistic abilities led him to the service of a Regensburg banker named Leskenkohl who had commissioned him to copy plates in van Rheede tot Draakestein, Hortus indicus malabaricus. It was during this period that Trew met Ehret. The plates in this volume are: 1-6, 8-10, 13-15, 17, 25-27, 34-38, 42-59, 63, 65-70, 101-120, 2 without plate number and 5 others. Dunthorne 309; Great Flower Books, p.78; Hunt 539; Nissen BBI 1997; Pritzel 9499; Stafleu & Cowan 15.131.
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FIRST EDITION, one of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical works. Christoph Trew, a physician and amateur botanist, had for a number of years been an admirer of Ehret's work. Ehret, a brilliant botanical artist, was born in Heidelberg in 1710 and originally worked as a gardener, practicing drawing in his spare time. His artistic abilities led him to the service of a Regensburg banker named Leskenkohl who had commissioned him to copy plates in van Rheede tot Draakestein, Hortus indicus malabaricus. It was during this period that Trew met Ehret. The plates in this volume are: 1-6, 8-10, 13-15, 17, 25-27, 34-38, 42-59, 63, 65-70, 101-120, 2 without plate number and 5 others. Dunthorne 309; Great Flower Books, p.78; Hunt 539; Nissen BBI 1997; Pritzel 9499; Stafleu & Cowan 15.131.