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Together 8 volumes. Folio (15 x 9 6/8 inches). 4 text volumes: 2 frontispiece mezzotint portraits printed in blue by Haid after Hirschmann of Weinmann and Bieler, frontispiece mezzotint in blue of Allegorical Flora by Haid after Baumgartner. Latin, French and German title-pages to index printed in red and black and bound at beginning of the first text-volume along with a foreword by Albrecht Haller in German, the German and Latin index itself bound in at the end of the last text volume, Latin and German title-pages in other volumes, all printed in red and black, letterpress interleaved with blank leaves, parallel text in double columns and indices in both languages. 4 plate volumes: Exceptionally fine folding engraved and mezzotint plate of Aloe Americana folio Mucronato printed in colours and finished by hand on two joined sheets, signed in ink manuscript by J. Haid and bound in between plates 62 and 63 in volume one, 1024 (of 1025) numbered engraved and mezzotint botanical plates by B. Seuter, J.E. Ridinger and Haid after G.D. Ehret, N. Asamin and others, all printed in colour and finished by hand, 15 of which double-page and folding, plate 982 with folding wing, additional plate from another work tipped in before plate 276 in volume II (without plate 525, pale marginal waterstaining to plates 1-26 and 480-498, waterstaining entering into plate images of 506-524, tiny repairs to versos of plates 90 and 443, plate 702 with tiny area of abrasion affecting the colour, preliminaries to second plate volume repaired along the top margin). Contemporary vellum over paste-board, blue edges, spines lettered in both contemporary and 20th-century manuscript (lightly soiled, extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: with the 19th-century lithographed library label of Friedrich Knapp with inventory number 1115 in manuscript, on the front paste-down of the first text volume, and removed from some others; with the engraved bookplates of Freiherr Ernst von Grunelius, Freifrau Anna von Grunelius née Gräfin von Bernstorff dated 1928, on the front paste-down of each volume; with the small ink library stamp of Dresden Central Art Library on the verso of each plate WITH THE VERY RARE LARGE FOLDING PLATE OF THE 'CENTURY PLANT', Aloe Americana folio Mucronato, so called because of the time it takes to flower (actually between 10 and 60 years, depending on the warmth of its growing location). There are two states of this plate: one is signed 'J.J. Haid f. excud' and appears to be a separately published plate; the other is unsigned, as is this example, but is HERE SIGNED IN MANUSCRIPT BY THE ARTIST. Only one copy of the separate plate and four copies (one incomplete) of Phytanthoza with this extra plate can be traced as selling at auction in the past 35 years. The copies at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, NHM, BL, Cambridge, Oxford and Wellcome are all without this plate. THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS TO USE COLOUR-PRINTING FROM A SINGLE PLATE. The work was issued in parts, and in more than one issue, and the make-up of the preliminary leaves and indices is known to vary between copies. A comprehensive and beautiful record of known 18th-century flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Financed by Weimann, director of the oldest pharmacy in Regensburg, who commissioned amongst other artists the now celebrated Georg Ehret. It was his first major commission, but he was not credited, and only received half of his promised wages, on the grounds that he had only supplied about half of the 1,000 that Weinman was expecting of him. However, even at this early stage in his career, Ehret's style is easily identified, particularly in various aloes and cacti growing in distinctive pots and urns that is a feature of Ehret's work for his own "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759). The "Phytanthoza ." was a very important influential book. Filippo Arena borrowed heavily from it for his "La Natura, e coltura de' fiori" (1767-1768), and the dutch edition. N° de ref. del artículo 72nhr235
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