The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I

The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I

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Willdenow | Hortus Berolinensis, Berlin, 1806, half calf

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

May 18, 05:10 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Karl Ludwig Willdenow


Hortus Berolinensis, sive icones et descriptiones, plantarum rariorum vel minus cognitarum, quae in Horto Regio Botanico Berolinensis excoluntur. Tomus I [-II]. Berlin: Fr. Schüppel, [1803-] 1806 [-1816]


folio (419 x 262mm.), engraved title to volume 1, index leaf after plate 72 (the end of vol.1), hand-coloured engraved plan of the gardens, 108 hand-coloured engraved plates by F. Guimpel, contemporary diced calf-backed boards


FIRST EDITION, issued in parts from 1803 onwards. Willdenow (1765-1812) was the director of the Botanical Garden in Berlin and was responsible for developing the electoral kitchen garden into a world-renowned scientific collection of exotic flora, assigned to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University. Willdenow was the teacher of Alexander von Humbolt (who worked in the garden) and Heinrich Link, who completed this work after Willdenow's death in 1812.


The book was subsequently reissued with a new title-page dated 1816 containing additionally a two-page epilogue by Link and a new engraved plan of the garden showing Willdenow's rearrangements, not present in this copy.


The work contains four plates of dahlias, here renamed Georgina after Willdenow reclassified them; he had been sent seeds by Humbolt from his travels in Mexico in 1805.


LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 333; Nissen BBI 2157

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