NIKOLAUS JOSEPH, BARON VON JACQUIN (1727-1817) Florae Austriacae, sive Plantarum Selectarum in Austriae archiducatu sponte crescentium, icones, ad vivum coloratae, et descriptionibus, ac synonymis illustratae. Vienna: Leopold Johann Kaliwoda (vols. I-III) and Joseph Michael Gerold (vols. IV & V), 1773-1778. 5 volumes, large 2 (460 x 280mm). Half-titles, titles with hand-coloured engraved views (those in vols.III and IV by Mansfeld after Franz von Scheidel). 500 FINE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES, some printed in coloured inks, one folding, one uncoloured plate, most by I. Adam after Franz von Scheidel, a few after Franz Xavier Wulfen, elaborate woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Effaced ownership inscriptions on half-titles and verso of vol.I, plate 43 slightly offset onto following plate, crease to plate 217 not touching subject, folding plate 336 with 5-inch repaired tear, and small fold tear, small marginal tear to plate A.T.13.) Contemporary Austrian sheep, the upper covers with centrally-placed gilt-stamped arms of Klosterneuberg, spines in eight compartments with raised bands, marbled edges (occasional surface wear, some minor restoration, vols.III & V with tears at foot of spines). Provenance : Stiftsbibliothek, Klosterneuburg (binding); municipal library, Klosterneuburg, Austria (partially erased inscriptions); unidentified 19th-century botanist (numerous pencilled or pen-and-ink notes and plant identifications); Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Stickney Fund, bookplate dated 1882, sale, Sotheby's New York, October 1, 1980, lot 133). FIRST EDITION OF JACQUIN'S GREAT MONOGRAPH ON AUSTRIAN FLORA, AND AMONGST "THE FINEST BOOKS DEALING WITH THE WILD FLOWERS OF A EUROPEAN COUNTRY" ( The Art of Botanical Illustration [1994], p.177). Jacquin was invited to Vienna to study in 1752. The great promise he showed in his botanical studies and his work in the Schnbrunn gardens bought him to the attention of Franz I of Austria and Maria Theresa. After producing a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, he was commissioned by the Emperor to mount a plant-collecting expedition to the West Indies and South America. Jacquin was a competent botanical artist and a great judge of the work of others. His scholarly activities left him little time for painting, and he quickly realised that he could not achieve his grand projects single handedly, and began "to gather around him a team of draughtsman to work under his immediate supervision. First among these was Franz von Scheidel (1731-1801), his companion, also, in many rambles in the Australian mountains. Jacquin described him as 'in pingendo celeberrimus' [very successful at painting]; and he is said to have made more than seven thousand drawings of plants" (Bartlett, Fifty-five Rare Books from the Botanical Library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt , Ann Arbor 1979). "This great Flora of Austria is one of the most magnificent of a flood of local floras that followed the advent of binomial nomenclature. They were designed to segregate from the Species plantarum of Linnaeus such plants as could be verified as present in each country, as well as to add species unknown to Linnaeus" (Bartlett). Clearly, during the 19th century the present copy belonged to a botanist of note. The corrections in pencil and pen are accurate and erudite to a degree that rules out an enthusiastic amateur. Johnston, Cleveland Botanical 512; Dunthorne 151; Great Flower Books p. 61; Nissen BBI 971; Pritzel 4366; Stafleu & Cowan 3247. (5)
NIKOLAUS JOSEPH, BARON VON JACQUIN (1727-1817) Florae Austriacae, sive Plantarum Selectarum in Austriae archiducatu sponte crescentium, icones, ad vivum coloratae, et descriptionibus, ac synonymis illustratae. Vienna: Leopold Johann Kaliwoda (vols. I-III) and Joseph Michael Gerold (vols. IV & V), 1773-1778. 5 volumes, large 2 (460 x 280mm). Half-titles, titles with hand-coloured engraved views (those in vols.III and IV by Mansfeld after Franz von Scheidel). 500 FINE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES, some printed in coloured inks, one folding, one uncoloured plate, most by I. Adam after Franz von Scheidel, a few after Franz Xavier Wulfen, elaborate woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Effaced ownership inscriptions on half-titles and verso of vol.I, plate 43 slightly offset onto following plate, crease to plate 217 not touching subject, folding plate 336 with 5-inch repaired tear, and small fold tear, small marginal tear to plate A.T.13.) Contemporary Austrian sheep, the upper covers with centrally-placed gilt-stamped arms of Klosterneuberg, spines in eight compartments with raised bands, marbled edges (occasional surface wear, some minor restoration, vols.III & V with tears at foot of spines). Provenance : Stiftsbibliothek, Klosterneuburg (binding); municipal library, Klosterneuburg, Austria (partially erased inscriptions); unidentified 19th-century botanist (numerous pencilled or pen-and-ink notes and plant identifications); Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Stickney Fund, bookplate dated 1882, sale, Sotheby's New York, October 1, 1980, lot 133). FIRST EDITION OF JACQUIN'S GREAT MONOGRAPH ON AUSTRIAN FLORA, AND AMONGST "THE FINEST BOOKS DEALING WITH THE WILD FLOWERS OF A EUROPEAN COUNTRY" ( The Art of Botanical Illustration [1994], p.177). Jacquin was invited to Vienna to study in 1752. The great promise he showed in his botanical studies and his work in the Schnbrunn gardens bought him to the attention of Franz I of Austria and Maria Theresa. After producing a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, he was commissioned by the Emperor to mount a plant-collecting expedition to the West Indies and South America. Jacquin was a competent botanical artist and a great judge of the work of others. His scholarly activities left him little time for painting, and he quickly realised that he could not achieve his grand projects single handedly, and began "to gather around him a team of draughtsman to work under his immediate supervision. First among these was Franz von Scheidel (1731-1801), his companion, also, in many rambles in the Australian mountains. Jacquin described him as 'in pingendo celeberrimus' [very successful at painting]; and he is said to have made more than seven thousand drawings of plants" (Bartlett, Fifty-five Rare Books from the Botanical Library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt , Ann Arbor 1979). "This great Flora of Austria is one of the most magnificent of a flood of local floras that followed the advent of binomial nomenclature. They were designed to segregate from the Species plantarum of Linnaeus such plants as could be verified as present in each country, as well as to add species unknown to Linnaeus" (Bartlett). Clearly, during the 19th century the present copy belonged to a botanist of note. The corrections in pencil and pen are accurate and erudite to a degree that rules out an enthusiastic amateur. Johnston, Cleveland Botanical 512; Dunthorne 151; Great Flower Books p. 61; Nissen BBI 971; Pritzel 4366; Stafleu & Cowan 3247. (5)
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