WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741). Phytanthoza iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque studio ... collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum, fungorum . Text by J.G.N. Dietrichs, L.M. Dietrichs, and A.K. Bieler. Regensburg: Hieronymus Lentzen [volume IV: Heinrich Georg Neubauer], 1735-1737-1745.
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741). Phytanthoza iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque studio ... collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum, fungorum . Text by J.G.N. Dietrichs, L.M. Dietrichs, and A.K. Bieler. Regensburg: Hieronymus Lentzen [volume IV: Heinrich Georg Neubauer], 1735-1737-1745. 8 volumes, 2° (382 x 242mm). Plates and text bound into separate volumes, text volumes interleaved, Latin, French and German titles to index printed in red and black and bound at beginning of first text-volume along with foreword by Albrecht Haller in German, the German and Latin index itself bound in at the end of the last text vol., Latin and German titles in other vols, all printed in red and black, parallel text in double column and indices in both languages. 2 mezzotint portraits printed in blue by Haid after Hirschmann of Weinmann and Bieler, mezzotint in blue of Allegorical Flora by Haid after Baumgartner, folding engraved and mezzotint plate of Aloe Americana folio Mucronato printed in colours and finished by hand on two joined sheets, signed in ink manuscript by J. Haid and bound in between plates 62 and 63 in vol. I, 1024 (of 1025) engraved and mezzotint botanical plates by B. Seuter, J.E. Ridinger and Haid after G.D. Ehret, N. Asamin and others, all printed in colour and finished by hand, 15 of which double-page and folding, pl. 982 with folding wing, additional plate from another work tipped in before plate 276 in vol. II. (Lacking plate 525, light marginal dampstaining to plates 1-26 and 480-498, dampstaining entering into plate images of 506-524, tiny repairs to versos of plates 90 and 443, pl. 702 with tiny area of abrasion affecting colour, a few very minor nicks.) Contemporary vellum, blue edges, spines lettered in both contemporary and 20th-century manuscript (lightly soiled). Provenance : Freiherr Ernst von Grunelius, Freifrau Anna von Grunelius née Gräfin von Bernstorff (bookplates dated 1928) – Friedrich Knapp (library booklabel with inventory number 1115) – Dresden Central Art Library (deaccession stamps). WITH THE VERY RARE LARGE FOLDING PLATE OF THE 'CENTURY PLANT', Aloe Americana folio Mucronato , so called because of the time it takes to flower (actually between 10 and 60 years, depending on the warmth of its growing location). There are two states of this plate: one is signed 'J.J. Haid f. excud' and appears to be a separately published plate; the other is unsigned, as in the present lot, but is HERE SIGNED IN MANUSCRIPT BY THE ARTIST . Only one copy of the separate plate and four copies (one incomplete) of Phytanthoza with this extra plate can be traced as selling at auction in the past 35 years. The copies at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, NHM, BL, Cambridge, Oxford and Wellcome are all without this plate. Weinmann's magnum opus is a full record of the flowers, fruit and vegetables cultivated in the early 18th century, based on Weinmann's own collection, and guided by the hand of Georg Dionysius Ehret The artist parted angrily with Weinmann after producing 500 designs in a year and receiving only twenty thaler for his work, and his name was expunged from the plates he had inspired. These became an important source for copyists, appearing in designs for Meissen porcelain. Many are 'of particular interest on account of the colour printing, especially the plates of Aloes and Cactus depicted in pots of different designs, and the folding plates of gourds' (Dunthorne). THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS TO USE COLOUR-PRINTING FROM A SINGLE PLATE. The work was issued in parts, and in more than one issue, and the make-up of the preliminary leaves and indices is known to vary between copies. Arnold Arboretum p. 738 (with an additional French title-page in vol. I); BM(NH) V, 2285; Brunet II, 704 (under Dietrichs); Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books (1990) p.151; Cleveland Collections 388
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741). Phytanthoza iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque studio ... collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum, fungorum . Text by J.G.N. Dietrichs, L.M. Dietrichs, and A.K. Bieler. Regensburg: Hieronymus Lentzen [volume IV: Heinrich Georg Neubauer], 1735-1737-1745.
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741). Phytanthoza iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque studio ... collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum, fungorum . Text by J.G.N. Dietrichs, L.M. Dietrichs, and A.K. Bieler. Regensburg: Hieronymus Lentzen [volume IV: Heinrich Georg Neubauer], 1735-1737-1745. 8 volumes, 2° (382 x 242mm). Plates and text bound into separate volumes, text volumes interleaved, Latin, French and German titles to index printed in red and black and bound at beginning of first text-volume along with foreword by Albrecht Haller in German, the German and Latin index itself bound in at the end of the last text vol., Latin and German titles in other vols, all printed in red and black, parallel text in double column and indices in both languages. 2 mezzotint portraits printed in blue by Haid after Hirschmann of Weinmann and Bieler, mezzotint in blue of Allegorical Flora by Haid after Baumgartner, folding engraved and mezzotint plate of Aloe Americana folio Mucronato printed in colours and finished by hand on two joined sheets, signed in ink manuscript by J. Haid and bound in between plates 62 and 63 in vol. I, 1024 (of 1025) engraved and mezzotint botanical plates by B. Seuter, J.E. Ridinger and Haid after G.D. Ehret, N. Asamin and others, all printed in colour and finished by hand, 15 of which double-page and folding, pl. 982 with folding wing, additional plate from another work tipped in before plate 276 in vol. II. (Lacking plate 525, light marginal dampstaining to plates 1-26 and 480-498, dampstaining entering into plate images of 506-524, tiny repairs to versos of plates 90 and 443, pl. 702 with tiny area of abrasion affecting colour, a few very minor nicks.) Contemporary vellum, blue edges, spines lettered in both contemporary and 20th-century manuscript (lightly soiled). Provenance : Freiherr Ernst von Grunelius, Freifrau Anna von Grunelius née Gräfin von Bernstorff (bookplates dated 1928) – Friedrich Knapp (library booklabel with inventory number 1115) – Dresden Central Art Library (deaccession stamps). WITH THE VERY RARE LARGE FOLDING PLATE OF THE 'CENTURY PLANT', Aloe Americana folio Mucronato , so called because of the time it takes to flower (actually between 10 and 60 years, depending on the warmth of its growing location). There are two states of this plate: one is signed 'J.J. Haid f. excud' and appears to be a separately published plate; the other is unsigned, as in the present lot, but is HERE SIGNED IN MANUSCRIPT BY THE ARTIST . Only one copy of the separate plate and four copies (one incomplete) of Phytanthoza with this extra plate can be traced as selling at auction in the past 35 years. The copies at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, NHM, BL, Cambridge, Oxford and Wellcome are all without this plate. Weinmann's magnum opus is a full record of the flowers, fruit and vegetables cultivated in the early 18th century, based on Weinmann's own collection, and guided by the hand of Georg Dionysius Ehret The artist parted angrily with Weinmann after producing 500 designs in a year and receiving only twenty thaler for his work, and his name was expunged from the plates he had inspired. These became an important source for copyists, appearing in designs for Meissen porcelain. Many are 'of particular interest on account of the colour printing, especially the plates of Aloes and Cactus depicted in pots of different designs, and the folding plates of gourds' (Dunthorne). THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS TO USE COLOUR-PRINTING FROM A SINGLE PLATE. The work was issued in parts, and in more than one issue, and the make-up of the preliminary leaves and indices is known to vary between copies. Arnold Arboretum p. 738 (with an additional French title-page in vol. I); BM(NH) V, 2285; Brunet II, 704 (under Dietrichs); Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books (1990) p.151; Cleveland Collections 388
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