[JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von] (1727-1817). Dreyhundert Ausserlesene Amerikanische Gewaechse nach Linnaeischer Ordnung, Nuremberg: Rapische Buchhandlung, 1785-88, 6 volumes in 3, 8° (lacking titles to second parts of volumes I and II), 300 hand-coloured engraved plates (perforation stamp on titles, one index leaf and 3 plates, accession number on one text leaf and 2 plates, ink stamp on verso of each plate), mixed bindings of 19th-century half calf (lacking backstrips) and modern library cloth. [Nissen BBI 2204; Sabin 35519] Provenance: JCL (3)

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[JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von] (1727-1817). Dreyhundert Ausserlesene Amerikanische Gewaechse nach Linnaeischer Ordnung, Nuremberg: Rapische Buchhandlung, 1785-88, 6 volumes in 3, 8° (lacking titles to second parts of volumes I and II), 300 hand-coloured engraved plates (perforation stamp on titles, one index leaf and 3 plates, accession number on one text leaf and 2 plates, ink stamp on verso of each plate), mixed bindings of 19th-century half calf (lacking backstrips) and modern library cloth. [Nissen BBI 2204; Sabin 35519] Provenance: JCL (3)

拍品专文

The majority of the plates are reduced copies from Jacquin's Selectorum stirpium Americanarum Historia.