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[Augsburg], 1750-1773. . 10 parts in one volume; folio (510 x 345 mm), engraved title in red & black, 3 mezzotint portraits of Trew, Ehret and Haid, 100 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after Georg Dionysius Ehret by Johann Jakob & E.D. Haid, each with captions, minor spotting to margin of plate XXXIII, touching on image; [ii](title), [iv], 56, [2](index)pp.; contemporary mottled calf, boards with rolled gilt borders, spine gilt in seven compartments, with morocco label lettered in gilt, cobalt blue endpapers, spine a little rubbed, wear to edges and extremities, covers with a little damage, bound without the 10 divisional titles, a very good copy with plates clean and fresh. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after paintings by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Georg Dionysius Ehret, the greatest botanical artist of the 18th century, was unrivalled in his ability to 'achieve realism, majesty, ineffable colour, all in one breathtak108342108342ing…
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Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum nutrita manu artificiosa Doctaque pinxit Georgius Dionysius Ehret...
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Augsburg, 1750-1773. 10 parts, bound as one. FIRST EDITION, one of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical works. Ten engraved titles, heightened in red and gold, 81 (of 100) magnificent hand-colored engraved plates by Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after drawings by Georg Dionysius Ehret, each with the first word of the caption heightened in gold Large folio, (appr 52 by 35 cm), in contemporary boards backed in vellum and with vellum corner-pieces, the spine with brown and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. 81 plates and ten engraved titles. A very bright and finely coloured copy, beautifully preserved, the titles and colouring all richly rendered, the binding well preserved. 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…
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