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First Dutch edition. Nine volumes (four text, five plates). Amsterdam: Zacharias Romberg, 1736-1739-1748. Folio (15 ¾" x 10"). Title-pages printed in red and black. Mezzotint allegorical frontispiece of Flora by J.J. Haid after Baumgartner in volume one, portraits of Weinmann and Bieler by Haid after M.C. Hirschman in volumes one and III, all 3 portraits printed in blue, and 1025 mezzotinted and engraved plates printed in color and finished by hand by J.J. Haid, J.E. Ridinger, and B. Seuter (373 plates singed "S" for Seuter, and 273 signed "H" for Haid) after N. Asamin, G.D. Ehret, and others. Bound in contemporary half speckled calf, speckled paper boards. Extremities a little worn. Light marginal waterstain to plates 21-35, title-page of second plate volume loose waterstain from plates 146-234, 326-521, plate 201 browned, title-page to fourth plate volume restored, some color loss to plate 723, small marginal repair to plate 761. (Provenance: Charles Traylen, 1972, $6,1810.) 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 images 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 Duidelyke Vertoning. was quite influential. Filippo Arena borrowed heavily from it for his La Natura, e coltura de' fiori (1767-1768), and the Dutch edition in particular was imported to Japan where it "gave rise to a major change in illustrated botanical literature. and led to the productions from 1830 onwards of the illustrated herbal "Honzo Zufu." by Iwasaki Kanen in ninety-six volumes" (Blunt pp. 155-156). Like his father before him Ehret trained as a gardener, initially working on estates of German nobility, and painting flowers only occasionally, another skill taught him by his father, who was a good draughtsman. Many Ehret watercolours were engraved in the works of Dr Christoph Joseph Trew, such as Hortus Nitidissimus (1750-86) and Plantae selectæ (1750-73), in which Trew named the genus Ehretia after him. "During 1734 Ehret travelled in Switzerland and France, working as a gardener and selling his paintings. While at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, he learned to use body-colour on vellum, thereafter his preferred medium. In 1735 he travelled to England with letters of introduction to patrons including Sir Hans Sloane and Philip Miller, curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In the spring of 1736 Ehret spent three months in the Netherlands. At the garden of rare plants of George Clifford, banker and director of the Dutch East India Company, he met the great Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who was then formulating his new classification based on plant sexual organs. Ehret painted a Tabella (1736), illustrating the system, and sold engravings of it to botanists in Holland. Some of his paintings of the exotics were engraved in Linnaeus's Hortus Cliffortianus (1737). Arnold Arboretum p. 738 (with an additional French title-page in vol. I); Brunet II, 704 (sub Dietrichs); Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books p. 80; Johnston Cleveland 388; Nissen BBI 2126; Pritzel 10140; Stafleu and Cowan 17,050. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6JLR0013
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