





CAMERARIUS FINELY ILLUSTRATED ATLAS TO HIS HORTUS MEDICUS... 1588.
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CAMERARIUS, IOACHIMO (Joachim the Younger). Icones accurate nunc primum delineatae praecipuarum stirpium, quarum descriptiones tam in Horto quam in Sylva Hercynia suis locis habentur. Francofurti ad Moenum, apud Iohannem Feyerabend, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij - Heinrici Dackij - Petri Fischeri, 1588.
Small 4:o (about 182x142 mm.). (2), I-XLVII, I-IX, (4) pp. Each page with a roman number with a woodcut, (in all 56, partly some foxing in upper margin), title and last leaf with woodcut printer's device..
Later (19th century) somewhat worn blue marbled boards, rebacked with black cloth, spine blank. (signed Kellner). Title mended in upper margin. Some expertly mended worming.
This work is the atlas to Camerarius "Hortus medicus et philosophicus" from the same year.
The woodcuts originating from Gessner's collection of plant drawings are according to Christian Treviranus the best botanical woodcuts ever made (see Blunt and Stearn: The Art of Botanical Illustration, 2015) p. 84, fig. 36 (p.85).
Ref. Nissen: BBI 311; Pritzel 1440*
Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534-1598), German botanist, naturalist, and medic.
Provenance: Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall. His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.
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