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Plantae selectae : quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini, in hortis curiosorum nutrita / manu artificiosa doctaque pinxit Georgius Dionysius Ehret ... occasione haud vulgari publici usus ergo collegit et a tabula prima ad septuagesimam secundam nominibus propriis notisque illustravit D. Christophorus Iacobus Trew ... hinc ad centesimam usque addendo itidem nomina ac notas produxit D. Benedictus Christianus Vogel ... in aes incidit et vivis coloribus repraesentavit primum Ioannes Iacobus Haid ... inde Ioannes Elias Haid, filius ... Per decades editae.

Accession number
PML 42635
Creator
Trew, Christoph Jacob, 1695-1769.
Published
[Norimbergae], 1750-1773.
Notes
Engraved t.p. hand colored in red, black and gold.
Issued in ten "decuriae".
The 3 portraits are in mezzotint: J.J. Haid, after A. Graff by J.E. Haid: G.D. Ehret, after A. Heckell by J.J. Haid; C.J. Trew, drawn and engraved by J.J. Haid.
Plate LXVI, Rhododendron, is engraved after Ehret's original water color on vellum in Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.
The special titles are lacking.
Plates colored by hand by J.J. Haid and J.E. Haid.
Description
4 p. l., 56, [2] p. : front., c col. pl., port. ; 54 cm.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip, earl de Grey.
Binding
Contemporary mottled calf.
Classification
Department