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BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis , Spring and Autumn parts. [Nuremberg]: 1613.

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BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis , Spring and Autumn parts. [Nuremberg]: 1613.

Schätzpreis
600.000 £ - 900.000 £
ca. 773.524 $ - 1.160.287 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis , Spring and Autumn parts. [Nuremberg]: 1613. Deluxe copy of the first edition of the most celebrated botanical work ever published. One of the first two copies to be completed, luxuriously coloured and illuminated on Besler’s instruction for his patron, the Bishop and Chapter of Eichstätt, by the prestigious studio of Georg Mack. Royal broadsheet (534 x 450mm). Engraved title by Wolfgang Kilian engraved portrait of Besler with his coat-of-arms, and 176 plates (of 366, Spring and Autumn parts only, see below) engraved by Wolfgang Kilian Dominicus Custos Raphael Custos Georg Gärtner Johannes Leypold, Levin van Hulsen, Friedrick van Hulsen, Peter Isselburg Servatius Raeven, Heinrich Ulrich and possibly others, after Daniel Herzog, Georg Gärtner and others, all richly coloured and with 77 plates signed or initialled by the colourists Georg Schneider and Georg Mack, ‘D.R.’ (2 plates) and ?’H.S.’ (one plate), 3 plates dated 1613 and one dated 4 May 1613. Letterpress: dedication to Johann Conrad, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, dedications to the Dean and College of Medicine at Nuremberg and to the reader, 2 leaves of privileges for France, Belgium and the Netherlands in roman, italic, or gothic type, 'Ordo' titles printed or mounted on plate versos, text leaves interleaved with plates, index leaves for spring (A-D, AA-CC) and autumn (aa-cc). Binding : Early 18th-century German, probably Augsburg, calf elaborately tooled in gilt, sides panelled with central composite lozenge, fleurons at corners, spine gilt in compartments, leather spine label, marbled endleaves, free endleaves at each end with watermark similar to but not identical with Heawood 569-574, Augsburg 1730-40s (minor repairs and wear at extremities, some scuffing); modern slipcase. Provenance : Bishop and Chapter of Eichstätt -- ‘52b duplum’ (title inscription) -- David Samuel von Madai (1709-80; student at Halle, medical doctor and author of medical works, court physician to the Fürst von Anhalt-Cöthen in 1740, coin-collector’ bookplate) – Turin, private collection (acquired in Germany, Barker copy ‘T’). The present copy and one now at Nuremberg are undoubtedly the first two to be completed, each with one plate signed by artist Georg Schneider and dated 4 May 1613 and 3 other plates dated 1613. As Nicolas Barker has observed, there are close similarities in their colouring, and they were ‘clearly painted in parallel’, for Besler’s two patrons: the Nuremberg city council and the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, whose gardens are so sumptuously recorded in the Hortus Eystettensis and to whom the work is dedicated. It is undoubtedly the copy documented as sent to Eichstätt in an account of 23 September 1613. Besler oversaw all aspects of his great work, including entrusting the first copies for the final, but arguably most important work – colouring -- to the studio of artist and illuminator Georg Mack of Nuremberg and Georg Schneider Six copies are known with at least some plates so initialled by the Mack workshop and 2 further copies are initialled by later colourists. The present copy is among those with the highest number of signed plates, and it is the only copy signed by the colourists to have come on the market . The present copy contains the plates for spring and autumn only. Its companion volume, containing plates for summer and winter, is now at Uppsala in the University Library. (The Nuremberg copy has the same seasonal division in two volumes.) The two Eichstätt volumes were clearly separated within a few decades of publication, one volume remaining in Germany until recent times and the other taken to Sweden, presumably as war booty during the Thirty Years War, following the sack of the Bishop’s Willibaldsburg seat at Eichstätt in 1633-34; it was certainly in Sweden by the end of that century, owned by Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702). The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the gre

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 169
Auktion:
Datum:
12.07.2017
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis , Spring and Autumn parts. [Nuremberg]: 1613. Deluxe copy of the first edition of the most celebrated botanical work ever published. One of the first two copies to be completed, luxuriously coloured and illuminated on Besler’s instruction for his patron, the Bishop and Chapter of Eichstätt, by the prestigious studio of Georg Mack. Royal broadsheet (534 x 450mm). Engraved title by Wolfgang Kilian engraved portrait of Besler with his coat-of-arms, and 176 plates (of 366, Spring and Autumn parts only, see below) engraved by Wolfgang Kilian Dominicus Custos Raphael Custos Georg Gärtner Johannes Leypold, Levin van Hulsen, Friedrick van Hulsen, Peter Isselburg Servatius Raeven, Heinrich Ulrich and possibly others, after Daniel Herzog, Georg Gärtner and others, all richly coloured and with 77 plates signed or initialled by the colourists Georg Schneider and Georg Mack, ‘D.R.’ (2 plates) and ?’H.S.’ (one plate), 3 plates dated 1613 and one dated 4 May 1613. Letterpress: dedication to Johann Conrad, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, dedications to the Dean and College of Medicine at Nuremberg and to the reader, 2 leaves of privileges for France, Belgium and the Netherlands in roman, italic, or gothic type, 'Ordo' titles printed or mounted on plate versos, text leaves interleaved with plates, index leaves for spring (A-D, AA-CC) and autumn (aa-cc). Binding : Early 18th-century German, probably Augsburg, calf elaborately tooled in gilt, sides panelled with central composite lozenge, fleurons at corners, spine gilt in compartments, leather spine label, marbled endleaves, free endleaves at each end with watermark similar to but not identical with Heawood 569-574, Augsburg 1730-40s (minor repairs and wear at extremities, some scuffing); modern slipcase. Provenance : Bishop and Chapter of Eichstätt -- ‘52b duplum’ (title inscription) -- David Samuel von Madai (1709-80; student at Halle, medical doctor and author of medical works, court physician to the Fürst von Anhalt-Cöthen in 1740, coin-collector’ bookplate) – Turin, private collection (acquired in Germany, Barker copy ‘T’). The present copy and one now at Nuremberg are undoubtedly the first two to be completed, each with one plate signed by artist Georg Schneider and dated 4 May 1613 and 3 other plates dated 1613. As Nicolas Barker has observed, there are close similarities in their colouring, and they were ‘clearly painted in parallel’, for Besler’s two patrons: the Nuremberg city council and the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, whose gardens are so sumptuously recorded in the Hortus Eystettensis and to whom the work is dedicated. It is undoubtedly the copy documented as sent to Eichstätt in an account of 23 September 1613. Besler oversaw all aspects of his great work, including entrusting the first copies for the final, but arguably most important work – colouring -- to the studio of artist and illuminator Georg Mack of Nuremberg and Georg Schneider Six copies are known with at least some plates so initialled by the Mack workshop and 2 further copies are initialled by later colourists. The present copy is among those with the highest number of signed plates, and it is the only copy signed by the colourists to have come on the market . The present copy contains the plates for spring and autumn only. Its companion volume, containing plates for summer and winter, is now at Uppsala in the University Library. (The Nuremberg copy has the same seasonal division in two volumes.) The two Eichstätt volumes were clearly separated within a few decades of publication, one volume remaining in Germany until recent times and the other taken to Sweden, presumably as war booty during the Thirty Years War, following the sack of the Bishop’s Willibaldsburg seat at Eichstätt in 1633-34; it was certainly in Sweden by the end of that century, owned by Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702). The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the gre

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 169
Auktion:
Datum:
12.07.2017
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
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