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Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse: wie auch solcher, welche mit ihnen verwechselt werden können.
by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Volume 5 only of this 13-volume set of one of the finest German works on medical botany.
Complete with 48 finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings of plants by the famous German botanical artist Friedrich Guimpel.
Plants include peony, horseradish, figwort, meadow saffron, broadleaf plantain, annual mercury, sedge, fumitory, fumewort, celandine, buckthorn, vervain, dead-nettle, lichens, and more.
Title page, preface, 96 pages of explanatory text, and 48 plates on watermarked laid paper mounted and folded against protective pages, with original blue wraps (dated 1816-1818) bound in at rear.
Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, taxonomist, pharmacist and professor. Beginning as a pharmacist in Berlin from 1778 to 1796, he worked as an assistant for the Royal Prussian Chemical Factory for several years before teaching pharmaceutical botany at the University of Berlin from 1811 until his death. Getreue Darstellung is his masterpiece, published over 30 years from 1805 to his death, and completed posthumously by his widow in 1837.
Complete with 48 finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings of plants by the famous German botanical artist Friedrich Guimpel.
Plants include peony, horseradish, figwort, meadow saffron, broadleaf plantain, annual mercury, sedge, fumitory, fumewort, celandine, buckthorn, vervain, dead-nettle, lichens, and more.
Title page, preface, 96 pages of explanatory text, and 48 plates on watermarked laid paper mounted and folded against protective pages, with original blue wraps (dated 1816-1818) bound in at rear.
Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, taxonomist, pharmacist and professor. Beginning as a pharmacist in Berlin from 1778 to 1796, he worked as an assistant for the Royal Prussian Chemical Factory for several years before teaching pharmaceutical botany at the University of Berlin from 1811 until his death. Getreue Darstellung is his masterpiece, published over 30 years from 1805 to his death, and completed posthumously by his widow in 1837.
Friedrich Guimpel (1774-1839) was a German engraver and botanical artist. Professor at the Berlin Academy of Arts, he collaborated with botanists including F.G Hayne, C.F. Otto and K.L. Willdenow.
Bound in half ivory vellum with gilt title on spine, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges dyed red. Internally spotless with striking botanical copperplates in vibrant hand-colour.
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- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo235
- Title
- Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse
- Author
- Friedrich Gottlob Hayne
- Illustrator
- Friedrich Guimpel
- Format/Binding
- Half vellum and marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- auf Kosten des Verfassers
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1818
- Size
- Quarto, 26 x 22cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gottlob Friedrich Hayne, Friedrich Guimpel, Getreue Darstellung und Beschriebung, botanical, herbal, botanical art, copperplate, engraving, botany, medical botany, medicine, pharmaceutical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany;
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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