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POHL, Johann Baptist Emanuel (1782-1834)

Lot 224
12.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 224 | POHL, Johann Baptist Emanuel (1782-1834)
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POHL, Johann Baptist Emanuel (1782-1834)

Plantarum Brasiliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae. Vienna: [1826-] 1827-1831 [-1833].

An excellent copy, in original publisher's boards, of one of the most important Brazilian florae: first edition, large-paper coloured issue, one of 62 copies according to the subscribers' list in vol. 1 (amended here in pencil to total 65). Pohl sailed to Brazil in 1817 alongside the Italian botanist Giuseppe Raddi as part of a large scientific expedition sent by Francis I of Austria, and spent four years travelling through Minas Gerais, Goiás, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, and on at least 30 of the country's rivers. As well as collecting thousands of plant specimens, he also studied the land's minerals and zoology, exploring gold and diamond mines, caves and native villages. Cleveland Collections 928; Dunthorne 226; Great Flower Books, p. 70; Nissen BBI 1551; Pritzel 7231; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8103.



2 volumes in 8 fascicles, large folio (548 x 375mm). 200 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Wilhelm Sandler, unbound as issued (some spotting to text, occasional discolouration of plate sheets). Original printed blue-grey boards, remnants of silk ties, uncut, printed overslip to upper cover of first part of volume 2, paper labels and manuscript numbering to spines (minor wear, some repaired abrasions, and staining to covers); housed in 2 modern green quarter morocco gilt clamshell boxes. Provenance: covers inscribed in a 19th-century German hand – Joaquin de Sousa-Leao (Brazilian mill owner and nobleman, 1818-1900; bookplate) – sold Christie's New York, An Important Botanical Library Part I, Wednesday, 4 June 1997, lot 119.





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