4to
1796 · Tübingen
by VON KERNER, Johann Simon
Tübingen: J.G. Cottaischen Buchhandlung, 1796. 4to. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches). 8 pp., 60 plates, watercolour over etched line. Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards.
Stafleu notes only one complete copy known of this rare and beautifully illustrated work on the foreign trees and shrubs found in Germany.
The plates were drawn, engraved, (and likely coloured) by the author, a German botanist and botanical artist who lectured at Carls Universität, Stuttgart. The plates are watercoloured over etched lines and thus appear as if they are watercolours. At the time of the publication of this work, Kerner was publishing his magnum opus, "Hortus Sempervirens," of which, like this work, only one complete copy is known. Unlike that larger work, this text is devoted to a subcategory, detailing all the foreign trees and shrubs in Germany. In this survey, he documents plants ranging from Mediterranean trees like the Pinus Cedrus which he detailed with 9 illustrations to the Euonymus Americanus, the strawberry plant native to the Eastern United States. In these 60 plates of delicate illustration, Kerner documents all the foreign trees and shrubs in Germany as of 1796.
Nissen BBI 1037; Stafleu TL2 3605; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 108. (Inventory #: 40823)
Stafleu notes only one complete copy known of this rare and beautifully illustrated work on the foreign trees and shrubs found in Germany.
The plates were drawn, engraved, (and likely coloured) by the author, a German botanist and botanical artist who lectured at Carls Universität, Stuttgart. The plates are watercoloured over etched lines and thus appear as if they are watercolours. At the time of the publication of this work, Kerner was publishing his magnum opus, "Hortus Sempervirens," of which, like this work, only one complete copy is known. Unlike that larger work, this text is devoted to a subcategory, detailing all the foreign trees and shrubs in Germany. In this survey, he documents plants ranging from Mediterranean trees like the Pinus Cedrus which he detailed with 9 illustrations to the Euonymus Americanus, the strawberry plant native to the Eastern United States. In these 60 plates of delicate illustration, Kerner documents all the foreign trees and shrubs in Germany as of 1796.
Nissen BBI 1037; Stafleu TL2 3605; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 108. (Inventory #: 40823)