.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Details
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Baron von (1727-1817). Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia... quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in viciniae continentis parte, observavit rariores. Vienna: Joseph Kurtböck for Kraus, 1763.
2° (345 x 230mm). Half-title, engraved emblematic frontispiece of Native Americans holding up a banner containing a map of the West Indies surrounded by Caribbean flowering plants and animals, engraved title vignette, and 2 headpieces, 184 engraved plates after Jacquin, including 6 folding, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (Occasional light, mainly marginal spotting, a little stronger on half-title, frontispiece and title.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn, front cover detached).
FIRST EDITION OF JACQUIN'S FIRST MAJOR PUBLICATION AND HIS FIRST ILLUSTRATED WORK. In 1752, the Dutch physician and botanist Gerard van Swieten, an old friend of Jacquin's father, invited the young man, aged 25 at the time, to come study in Vienna. The young man showed such great promise in his botanical studies that he attracted the interest of Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband, while working in the Schönbrunn gardens. The Emperor soon commissioned him to produce a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, and in 1754 asked him to voyage to the West Indies to collect tropical plant specimens and live animals for the gardens at Schönbrunn and the royal Menagerie. Jacquin spent the next four years exploring the Antilles and part of South America diligently amassing plants, natural history specimens, and ethnographica. 'Ants damaged Jacquin's herbarium material, and he therefore supplemented his descriptions and notes on the new species with watercolour drawings' (Blunt and Stearn, p.175). The project was a great success, and Jacquin's work provided the first solid foundation for European knowledge of the natural history of this area. Dunthorne 148; Hunt 579; Nissen BBI 979; Pritzel 4362; Sabin 35521; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3243 ('an important complement to the 1760 Enumeratio and should always be consulted with it').
2° (345 x 230mm). Half-title, engraved emblematic frontispiece of Native Americans holding up a banner containing a map of the West Indies surrounded by Caribbean flowering plants and animals, engraved title vignette, and 2 headpieces, 184 engraved plates after Jacquin, including 6 folding, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (Occasional light, mainly marginal spotting, a little stronger on half-title, frontispiece and title.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn, front cover detached).
FIRST EDITION OF JACQUIN'S FIRST MAJOR PUBLICATION AND HIS FIRST ILLUSTRATED WORK. In 1752, the Dutch physician and botanist Gerard van Swieten, an old friend of Jacquin's father, invited the young man, aged 25 at the time, to come study in Vienna. The young man showed such great promise in his botanical studies that he attracted the interest of Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband, while working in the Schönbrunn gardens. The Emperor soon commissioned him to produce a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, and in 1754 asked him to voyage to the West Indies to collect tropical plant specimens and live animals for the gardens at Schönbrunn and the royal Menagerie. Jacquin spent the next four years exploring the Antilles and part of South America diligently amassing plants, natural history specimens, and ethnographica. 'Ants damaged Jacquin's herbarium material, and he therefore supplemented his descriptions and notes on the new species with watercolour drawings' (Blunt and Stearn, p.175). The project was a great success, and Jacquin's work provided the first solid foundation for European knowledge of the natural history of this area. Dunthorne 148; Hunt 579; Nissen BBI 979; Pritzel 4362; Sabin 35521; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3243 ('an important complement to the 1760 Enumeratio and should always be consulted with it').
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Julian Wilson