







JOHANN BAPTIST, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA: ALPENPFLANZEN, fragment of 11 hand-coloured engraved plates.
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JOHANN BAPTIST, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA. (Icones plantarum alpinarum, Alpenpflanzen. Vienna c. 1807, no title).
Folio (c. 510x400 mm.). Fragment consisting of 11 hand-coloured engraved plates (never finished or published), hand-coloured by the court painter Johann Knapp himself and kept by the archduke's secreteary Johann Zahlbrucker to be given as precious gifts.
Later paper wrappers with grey cloth spine, on upper cover handwritten label dated 1905. In a new grey linen cassette (Marlis Egli).
Ref. See Stafleu: TL-2 3362; Pritzel 4443.
Literature: Wallin, Olle: Johann Baptist och hans Icones plantarum alpinarum in Biblis 49 (2010) pp. 34-39
Johann Baptist, Fabian Sebastian (1782-1859), Archduke of Austria, amateur botanist. The orchid "Archduke John's Vanilla" (Nigritella rubra subsp. archiducis-joannis), is named after him.
Johann Knapp (1778-1833), Austrian flower painter and watercolorist who worked as a private tutor for various nobles, amongst others for Archduke Johan.
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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