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Trew, Christoph Jacob (1695-1769) Plantae Selectae quarum Imagines ad Exemplaria Naturalia.
Georgius Dionysius Ehret. Nuremberg, 1750-1773.
First edition, oversized folio, ten parts in one volume, each with hand-colored engraved sectional title pages decorated in red and gold inks (some title pages printed on paper stock smaller than that used for the plates); featuring 100 hand-colored engravings by Johann Jacob Haid and Johan Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret, each with the plant's Latin name hand-colored in red and gold; with three mezzotint portraits of contributors Trew, Ehret & Haid; contemporary handwritten notation of Latin names added to each plate; bound in full modern brown calf, antique style; 20 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.
Dunthorne 309; Great Flower Books, p. 78; Hunt 539; Nissen BBI 1997.
From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
