Woodcut floral vignettes on title-pages, woodcut head- and tailpiece. Illustration: 649 fine handcolored engraved plates (unnumbered; 37 full-sheet or folding) after and by Franz Bauer, Ferdinand Bauer Joseph Hofbauer, and Joseph Scharf. 3 volumes, folio (18 x 10 7/8 in.; 455 x 275 mm). Binding: Contemporary German half tree calf over black paste-paper boards, smooth spines gilt-ruled in six compartments, plain endpapers, red edges. Provenance: Unidentified modern printing of Hilprand Brandenburg's bookplate above nineteenth-century press-marks 2 Nl.133 1–3 — Robert de Belder (Sotheby's London, 27 April 1987, lot 181) — Ladislaus von Hoffmann (Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, "An Important Botanical Library, The Property of a Gentleman," lot 77). A few of the folding plates with very short fold tears at margins, a few plates shaved within plate mark, just touching the image in about 6 plates, a number of plates in vol. 2 with 2 small stains at top margin, just touching image in a couple of instances, a very few other scattered marginal stains. Extremities of binding rubbed, a couple of joints worn.
Woodcut floral vignettes on title-pages, woodcut head- and tailpiece. Illustration: 649 fine handcolored engraved plates (unnumbered; 37 full-sheet or folding) after and by Franz Bauer, Ferdinand Bauer Joseph Hofbauer, and Joseph Scharf. 3 volumes, folio (18 x 10 7/8 in.; 455 x 275 mm). Binding: Contemporary German half tree calf over black paste-paper boards, smooth spines gilt-ruled in six compartments, plain endpapers, red edges. Provenance: Unidentified modern printing of Hilprand Brandenburg's bookplate above nineteenth-century press-marks 2 Nl.133 1–3 — Robert de Belder (Sotheby's London, 27 April 1987, lot 181) — Ladislaus von Hoffmann (Christie's New York, 4 June 1997, "An Important Botanical Library, The Property of a Gentleman," lot 77). A few of the folding plates with very short fold tears at margins, a few plates shaved within plate mark, just touching the image in about 6 plates, a number of plates in vol. 2 with 2 small stains at top margin, just touching image in a couple of instances, a very few other scattered marginal stains. Extremities of binding rubbed, a couple of joints worn.
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