TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695-1769)

Schätzwert
£ 20 000 – 30 000
AuktionsdatumClassic
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Veranstaltungsort
Vereinigtes Königreich, London
ID 1249837
Los 156 | TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695-1769)
TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695-1769)
Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750-1773].
First edition of one of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical colour-plate books. Trew, a wealthy physician at Nuremberg and amateur botanist, admired the talent and skill of his younger countryman, Georg Ehret (1708-1770), a gardener and flower painter. This work is their major collaboration, and all 100 plates of the Plantae selectae were drawn by Ehret, considered to be one of the greatest botanical painters of the eighteenth century. Trew died in 1769, as did Ehret the following year, leaving the last three parts uncompleted, with the work being finished by Benedict Christian Vogel, Professor of Botany at the University of Altdorf. The work was conceived as early as 1742 when Trew wrote to Christian Thran in Carlsruhe: 'Every year I receive some beautifully painted exotic plants (by Ehret) and have already more than one hundred of them, which with other pieces executed by local artists, should later on, Deo volante, constitute an appendicem to Weinmann's publication but will, I hope, find a better reception than his'. In 1748, an agreement was reached that Johann Jacob Haid from Augsburg should provide the engravings, and the first part appeared in 1750. The collation of this work is variable, there being a possible further portrait of Vogel); sold without the very rare supplement by Vogel, published later in two decuriae in 1790-1792. Great Flower Books (1990) p.144); Nissen BBI 1997 Stafleu & Cowan 15.131.

10 parts (decuriae) in 1 volume, folio (505 x 358mm). 10 engraved decuriae titles in red, gold, and black, decuriae titles 2-7 reusing the first title with their correct corresponding Roman numerals for the part and date added in ink manuscript, with decuriae titles 9-10 similarly renumbered using the title to part 8, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by Ehret, captioned in gold, mezzotint portraits of Ehret, Haid and Trew bound in at end after plates and before letterpress text (without the portrait of Vogel found in some copies, 40mm closed repaired tear just into image of portrait of Trew, faint marginal staining to last few leaves of text, occasional insignificant faint even browning and scattered spotting). Contemporary half sheep, gilt spine, speckled edges (spine expertly repaired and restored, recornered, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861-1948; armorial bookplate).
Adresse der Versteigerung CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Vereinigtes Königreich
Vorschau
10.07.2024 – 10.07.2024
Telefon +44 (0)20 7839 9060
E-Mail
Aufgeld see on Website
NutzungsbedingungenNutzungsbedingungen

Verwandte Begriffe