[Rarebooks] FS: THE MAJOR COLORED NATURE-PRINTED BOOK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

[Charles Agvent]

LUDWIG, Christian Gottllieb. ECTYPA VEGETABILIUM USIBUS MEDICIS 
PRAECIPUE DESTINATORUM ET IN PHARMACOPOLIIS OBVIORUM VARIISQUE MODIS 
PRAEPARATORUM AD NATURAE SIMILITUDINEM EXPRESSA. Halle: Johann Gottfried 
Trampe for Johann Christoph Breitkopf in Leipzig, 1760 [-1764]. First 
Edition. Folio (8-3/4" x 14-3/4") bound in twentieth century brown 
half-morocco leather. Illustrated with 200 hand-colored, nature-printed 
plates with letterpress legends in Latin and German and with additional 
legends neatly added in ink in a contemporary hand. The ONLY edition of 
THE MAJOR COLORED NATURE-PRINTED BOOK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
Published over four years in eight parts with a series of 25 plates in 
each, the plant took the place of the woodblock or engraved plate in the 
process of reproduction. With the specimens arranged and covered with a 
dark dust, the outlines formed on the paper were then colored either by 
hand or a combined color-printing and hand-coloring process. The 
specimens were delicate and could sustain only the smallest of print 
runs. DUNTHORNE 188; NISSEN, BBI 1252. Some mild offsetting from the 
strength of the colors, a few plates with light spotting to fore-margin. 
Near Fine and quite scarce. (#021666)        $17,500

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