Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards

Lot 81
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Lot 81 | Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards
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Illustratio specierum aconiti generis, additis delphiniis quibusdam. Neue Bearbeitung der Arten der Gattung Aconitum, und einiger Delphinien. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, 1823-1827

Folio (400 x 259mm.), parallel Latin and German text, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates plus an uncoloured lithograph (plate XXXVI), a few plates on shorter paper, original printed brown boards, UNCUT, printed instructions to binder pasted to inside front cover, in modern half green morocco drop-backed box, some light foxing, a few leaves becoming loose, boards slightly worn and stained

The detailed plates are mostly by Schnorr, Zumpe, Harzer and Täubert. Reichenbach, the founder of the Dresden Botanical Garden, had previously published a shorter work on aconites, Monographia generis aconiti (1821), with only 18 plates.
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