JACQUIN. STAPELIARUM IN HORTIS VINDOBONENSIBUS CULTARUM. 1806

FIRST EDITION, folio (490 x 345mm.), 58 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (only, of 64), contemporary half vellum, red lettering piece, lacking 6 plates

Ruth and Walter Middelmann, blindstamp

Dunthorne 157; Nissen BBI 981; Stafleu TL2 3257, 3238 (Synopsis)

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THE RAREST OF JACQUIN’S FOLIO PUBLICATIONS, this work on the stapeliae was completed by Jacquin’s son Joseph Franz, who also wrote the octavo Synopsis stapeliarum (1816), which is bound in at the front of this copy. The specimens came to Jacquin via two botanists from Schoenbrunn, Franz Boos and Georg Scholl, who embarked on an expedition to Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope in 1786.