Reitter Abel (3 results)

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First. First edition. Stuttgart: Drukerei [sic] der Herzoglichen Hohen Karls-Schule, 1790[1794]. Quarto (11 1/16" x 9 1/16", 282mm x 232mm). [Full collation available.] 26 leaves, pp. [14] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 5pp. subscribers, blank, 3pp. subscribers, blank), 1 2-11 12-13 14-20 21 22-28 29 30-38. With 100 hand-colored engraved plates. Bound in contemporary half spotted sheep over blue marbled boards. On the spine, five sets of horizontal gilt borders, fillets surrounding a diamond roll. In the panels, a gilt bird, perched on a fountain and holding a branch in its beak. Title gilt to beige sheep in the second panel. Printed patterned end-papers, a blue dotted motif to blue-grey paper. Fore-corners worn and bumped. Some rubbing and wear to the edges. Scuffs and chips to the spine. Quite solid despite the simple materials. Excellent margins (55-75mm and more in the printed sections) and lovely bright paper. With very scattered offsetting. Excellent contemporary hand-coloring, some heightened with gum arabic. A beautifully fresh copy. With the octagonal bookplate of P. Dominicus Erlacher to the front paste-down and on the recto of the final subscribers leaf. Light early pencil notations to plates 3, 4 and 98 (correcting Latin names). Johann Daniel Reitter (17591811) from 1808, von Reitter for his service in forestry was a forester's son who was noticed, educated and then employed by Carl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg as his own forester. He would go on to be an instructor of forestry at the school set up by the Duke at his palace, Hohenheim, in Stuttgart. From 1790 Reitter also published one of the first journals of practical forest-management, the Journal für das Forst- und Jagdwesen. The present item is an account of one hundred plant species native to Germany, indexed to the 1787 publication of Friedrich August von Burgsdorff, chief forester to the Prussian court, of the species native to the climate and their management. For this task, Gottlieb Friedrich Abel, who was also in the employ of Württemberg, made 100 copper plates of the selected species. His work is distinguished by the subtle use of cast shadows, which gives the appearance of specimens laying on the page. Its effect is quite striking, especially given the fineness of the detail so characteristic of his work. Father Dominicus Erlacher (17831832) was a Benedictine monk and schoolteacher, who taught subjects as disparate as ancient Greek, mathematics and geometry. Because of illness he retired to the Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria. In the history of that Abbey it is noted that his estate included a great many "interessante und kostspielige Bücher und Tafelwerke mathematischen und naturgeschichtlichen Inhaltes" (interesting and costly books and materials on mathematics and on natural history), of which this must surely be one. From the Christie's New York Important Botanical Library sale, 4 June 1997 (lot 126). Arnold Arboretum p. 591; BM(NH) IV p. 1,677; Great Flower Books p. 132; Nissen BBI 1617; Pritzel 7533; Stafleu and Cowan 8971 (calling for 8 rather than 14 preliminaries).

(30 x 23 cm). Mit 100 altkolorierten Kupfertafeln und 24 (statt 25, ohne Nr. 1) altkolorierten Kupfertafeln, jeweils von Abel gezeichnet und gestochen. Lose in moderner Leinwand-Kassette. Tafelteile eines der frühesten deutschen Tafelwerke zur Baum- und Strauchflora, hier ohne Reitters 38 S. bzw. 28 S. umfassende Erläuterungen der Einzelfiguren. Die in ihrer Plastizität noch dem süddeutschen Spätbarock zugehörigen Illustrationen sind eines der Hauptwerke des württembergischen Hofkupferstechers Abel (1763-1822). Seine mit Gouache und Eiweiß gehöhten Tafeln zeigen an jeweils 1-2 Zweigen beide Blattseiten, männliche und weibliche Blütenstände, Samen und Früchte, teils sind Setzlinge hinzugefügt. Das Grundwerk erschien zuerst 1790-94 in vier Lieferungen. Bis 1805 sind mehrere Druck- oder Koloritvarianten nachweisbar, die vorliegende ist ohne Titelblatt nicht genau zu bestimmen. Das Fortsetzungsheft erschien nur in einer Ausgabe. - Die Tafeln vereinzelt bis an den Plattenrand beschnitten. Etwa ein Dutzend Tafeln mit streifigen grauen Platten- oder Grundierungsspuren. Sonst sauber und frisch. - Nissen BBI 1617-18; Stafleu-Cowan 8971-72.