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Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia, in qua ad Linnæanum systema determinatæ descriptæque sistuntur plantæ illæ, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinæ continentis parte, observavit rariores; adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. Translated: Nicolas Joseph Jacquin’s History of Selected American Plants, in which those rarer plants that he observed on the islands of Martinique, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and others, as well as in a neighboring part of the continent, are identified according to the Linnaean system and described, with illustrations drawn in their native habitat.
Jacquin, Nicolai Josephi · Vienna
- Author
- Jacquin, Nicolai Josephi
- Date
- 1763
- Place
- Vienna
- Publisher
- Kraus Printing House
- Language
- Latin
- Binding
- Folio.(9.25" x 13.25") (10) + VII + (5) + 284 +14 + Eng. Plate + 183 Engraved Plates. Rebound with quarter brown leather with corners, a bright gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt lettering to fancy gilt rule framed red leather to second compartment, large single blindstamp floral device centered to all other compartments, gilt "1763" to foot. All edges reddened, renewed endpapers. manuscript in old ink neatly to first free flyleaf, small closed tear and stain to foot. Engraved vignette to title page, engraved head and tail pieces, engraved half-title page starts the section of 183 plates, 6 of them folded. Dampstain to lower sixth of page throughout the entire text including plates, only affecting image on a couple of plates. A complete text and images from the 18th century, beautifully bound and ready for the next 300 years. First edition of Jacquin's first major publication and his first illustrated work.
- Format
- One of the earliest detailed accounts of American botany. In 1752, the Dutch physician and botanist Gerard van Swieten, an old friend of Jacquin's father, invited the young man, aged 25 at the time, to come study in Vienna. The young man showed such great promise in his botanical studies that he attracted the interest of Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband, while working in the Schönbrunn gardens. The Emperor soon commissioned him to produce a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, and in 1754 asked him to voyage to the West Indies to collect tropical plant specimens and live animals for the gardens at Schonbrunn and the royal Menagerie. Jacquin spent the next four years exploring the Antilles and part of South America diligently amassing plants, natural history specimens, and ethnographica. 'Ants damaged Jacquin's herbarium material, and he therefore supplemented his descriptions and notes on the new species with watercolour drawings' (Blunt and Stearn, p.175). The project was a great success, and Jacquin's work provided the first solid foundation for European knowledge of the natural history of this area.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.10228
Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia, in qua ad Linnæanum systema determinatæ descriptæque sistuntur plantæ illæ, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinæ continentis parte, observavit rariores; adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. Translated: Nicolas Joseph Jacquin’s History of Selected American Plants, in which those rarer plants that he observed on the islands of Martinique, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and others, as well as in a neighboring part of the continent, are identified according to the Linnaean system and described, with illustrations drawn in their native habitat. Jacquin, Nicolai Josephi. 1763. Vienna: Kraus Printing House. Folio.(9.25" x 13.25") (10) + VII + (5) + 284 +14 + Eng. Plate + 183 Engraved Plates. Rebound with quarter brown leather with corners, a bright gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt lettering to fancy gilt rule framed red leather to second compartment, large single blindstamp floral device centered to all other compartments, gilt "1763" to foot. All edges reddened, renewed endpapers. manuscript in old ink neatly to first free flyleaf, small closed tear and stain to foot. Engraved vignette to title page, engraved head and tail pieces, engraved half-title page starts the section of 183 plates, 6 of them folded. Dampstain to lower sixth of page throughout the entire text including plates, only affecting image on a couple of plates. A complete text and images from the 18th century, beautifully bound and ready for the next 300 years. First edition of Jacquin's first major publication and his first illustrated work. One of the earliest detailed accounts of American botany. In 1752, the Dutch physician and botanist Gerard van Swieten, an old friend of Jacquin's father, invited the young man, aged 25 at the time, to come study in Vienna. The young man showed such great promise in his botanical studies that he attracted the interest of Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband, while working in the Schönbrunn gardens. The Emperor soon commissioned him to produce a systematic catalogue of the plants in the gardens, and in 1754 asked him to voyage to the West Indies to collect tropical plant specimens and live animals for the gardens at Schonbrunn and the royal Menagerie. Jacquin spent the next four years exploring the Antilles and part of South America diligently amassing plants, natural history specimens, and ethnographica. 'Ants damaged Jacquin's herbarium material, and he therefore supplemented his descriptions and notes on the new species with watercolour drawings' (Blunt and Stearn, p.175). The project was a great success, and Jacquin's work provided the first solid foundation for European knowledge of the natural history of this area.
Condition
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