MARTIUS, Karl von (1794-1868), and Joseph ZUCCARINI (1797-1848). Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX ... collegit et descripsit . Munich: [1823-] 1824-1829 [-1832].
MARTIUS, Karl von (1794-1868), and Joseph ZUCCARINI (1797-1848). Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX ... collegit et descripsit . Munich: [1823-] 1824-1829 [-1832]. 3 volumes, 2° (345 x 272mm). With half-titles. Lithographic additional titles and 272 (of 300) lithographic plates, 263 hand-coloured, 8 double-page, 2 others with folding wings, by T. Bischoff, S. Minsinger and others. (Lacking 28 plates nos. 264, 273-277, 279-300, some plates loose in vol. III, spotting and browning to lithographic titles and text.) Vols I-II bound in contemporary green half roan over green paper-covered boards, gilt spines with Saxon arms, yellow edges (extremities rubbed, sometime recased with later endpapers); vol. III in original printed boards, uncut (rebacked with modern green cloth spine), contained in a modern cloth-backed card box. Provenance : Anton Klemens Theodor, King of Saxony (1755-1836; crowned monogram on titles) – Saxon State and University Library (stamps on versos of plates in vol. I, cancelled stamps on versos of titles). FIRST EDITION. Martius's Brazil expedition brought to light a huge number of previously unknown plants, many of them first depicted here. The trip had many scientific repercussions, not least pointing out the necessity for a more rigorous and expansive classification system which could incorporate the newly discovered species. According to Martius's own calculations in 1837, approximately 15,000 specimens from Brazil alone could be found by that time in European botanic gardens, approximately the equivalent of all the plants of Europe, and yet that number represented only about one quarter of all plants in Brazil. In 1997, Christie’s sold another copy with exactly the same plates lacking as this copy, so it may be the case that vol. III was issued thus. Borba de Moraes, II, p.524; Dunthorne 192; Great Flower Books (1990), p.117; Nissen BBI 1288; Sabin 44989; Stafleu & Cowan 5519.
MARTIUS, Karl von (1794-1868), and Joseph ZUCCARINI (1797-1848). Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX ... collegit et descripsit . Munich: [1823-] 1824-1829 [-1832].
MARTIUS, Karl von (1794-1868), and Joseph ZUCCARINI (1797-1848). Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX ... collegit et descripsit . Munich: [1823-] 1824-1829 [-1832]. 3 volumes, 2° (345 x 272mm). With half-titles. Lithographic additional titles and 272 (of 300) lithographic plates, 263 hand-coloured, 8 double-page, 2 others with folding wings, by T. Bischoff, S. Minsinger and others. (Lacking 28 plates nos. 264, 273-277, 279-300, some plates loose in vol. III, spotting and browning to lithographic titles and text.) Vols I-II bound in contemporary green half roan over green paper-covered boards, gilt spines with Saxon arms, yellow edges (extremities rubbed, sometime recased with later endpapers); vol. III in original printed boards, uncut (rebacked with modern green cloth spine), contained in a modern cloth-backed card box. Provenance : Anton Klemens Theodor, King of Saxony (1755-1836; crowned monogram on titles) – Saxon State and University Library (stamps on versos of plates in vol. I, cancelled stamps on versos of titles). FIRST EDITION. Martius's Brazil expedition brought to light a huge number of previously unknown plants, many of them first depicted here. The trip had many scientific repercussions, not least pointing out the necessity for a more rigorous and expansive classification system which could incorporate the newly discovered species. According to Martius's own calculations in 1837, approximately 15,000 specimens from Brazil alone could be found by that time in European botanic gardens, approximately the equivalent of all the plants of Europe, and yet that number represented only about one quarter of all plants in Brazil. In 1997, Christie’s sold another copy with exactly the same plates lacking as this copy, so it may be the case that vol. III was issued thus. Borba de Moraes, II, p.524; Dunthorne 192; Great Flower Books (1990), p.117; Nissen BBI 1288; Sabin 44989; Stafleu & Cowan 5519.
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