Lot 1060: JACQUIN, NICOLAUS JOSEPH VON. 1727-1817. Selectarium stirpium americanarum historia. Vienna: Kraus, 1763.

Name: JACQUIN, NICOLAUS JOSEPH VON. 1727-1817. Selectarium stirpium americanarum historia. Vienna: Kraus, 1763.
Brand: Bonhams
SKU: 7ebac06592

Est: $3,000 USD - $5,000 USDSold:

BonhamsSan Francisco, CA, USOctober 10, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Selectarium stirpium americanarum historia. Vienna: Kraus, 1763.
Folio (350 x 230 mm). Aυ4 bυ4 cυ2 A-2Mυ4 2Nυ4 [chi]υ1 ›‹υ4. Engraved frontispiece and 184 plates (several of which are double-page or folding). Period calf. Wormholes and several trails (most plates with hole inside platemark), first gathering crumpled and torn at gutter, another loose, rubbed with loss at head of spine.

FIRST EDITION of this work on the flora of the Caribbean. Jacquin traveled there and to South America from 1754 to 1759 under the orders of Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband, with the aim of enlarging the Imperial Natural History collections in Vienna. Linnaeus described him as "ambassador of Flora itself, bringing us the treasures from foreign worlds, so far neither heard of nor seen" (Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p 185). Hunt 579; Nissen BBI 979.

Artist or Maker

Nikolaus Joseph (Baron von) Jacquin

Auction Details

Fine Books and Manuscripts

Bonhams

October 10, 2011, 12:00 PM PST

220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94103, US

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