ID 1026914
Lot 81 | Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards
Valeur estimée
£ 700 – 2 000
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.
| Adresse de l'enchère |
Sotheby´s 34-35 New Bond Street W1A 2AA London Royaume-Uni | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aperçu |
| ||||||
| Téléphone | +44 (0) 20 7293 5000 | ||||||
| Téléphone | +1 212 606 7000 | ||||||
| Conditions d'utilisation | Conditions d'utilisation |






