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ZOLLNER, Fr. Antonius (fl. late 18th century). “Herbarium Botanicum secundum originale exemplar naturae.” Ingolstadt, 1787. A very rare and extensive collection of nature prints, carefully indexed in manuscript , by a contributor to Franz von Paula Schrank’s Baiersche Flora . This work is unrecorded in any of the main nature printing bibliographies; there appear to be two copies of the same (or very similar) collection at Dombibliothek Freising. Zollner was a botanist based in Erding; another nature-printed publication by him, Icones Plantarum , is extant in a single known copy dated 1793. Created by applying ink directly to specimens to produce striking 1:1 images, nature printing rapidly destroys the specimens themselves and can only produce small editions. Yet, "a collection of good nature prints was a tolerable substitute for an herbarium in a way that no other illustrations could be" (Cave and Wakeman). While the technique is ancient, it came particularly into vogue in 18th- and 19th-century scientific communities. Here each specimen is numbered, and Zollner has provided manuscript indices with the Linnaean scientific names of each plant. Only one example of Zollner’s work is recorded by RBH and ABPC, a portfolio of nature prints. See Annette Zimmermann, Franz von Paula Schrank , p. 102; Cave and Wakeman, Typographia Naturalis, p. 1. Two volumes, folio (359 x 224mm). Manuscript title pages, 705 plant specimens illustrated on 255 leaves, with 22 leaves of manuscript notes (one gathering in vol. 1 sprung; light spotting to vol. 2 title page, dampstaining to end of vol. 2). Contemporary boards (light wear).