LINNAEUS. HORTUS CLIFFORTIANUS. 1737

估價

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

招標截止

描述

Hortus cliffortianus plantas exhibens quas in hortis tam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia. Amsterdam: [no publisher, 1737]
PAPER

FIRST EDITION, folio (425 x 243mm.), half-title, engraved frontispiece, printed title in red and black with engraved vignette, 36 engraved plates, 20 after G.D. Ehret, most with letterpress captions, later half calf, some spotting, frontispiece split

出版

Cleveland Herbal 387; Dunthorne 186; Hunt 504; Nissen BBI 1215; Soulsby 328; Stafleu TL2 4719

拍品資料及來源

“THE MOST ELABORATE ILLUSTRATED WORK BY LINNAEUS” (Cleveland Herbal). An important botanical work, being the catalogue of the magnificent garden at Hartekamp of the Anglo-Dutch banker George Clifford. Ehret's masterful and accurate drawings brought a new standard of excellence to botanical illustration, while Linnaeus's definitions of each species established the groundwork for his system of binomials.