1317 - Batsch, A.J.G.K.

Batsch, A.J.G.K. The Open Flower Garden, partly based on the English edition of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, newly revised, and partly enriched with new original illustrations... Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, 1798. With 100 colored flower engravings. VI pp., 100 numbered, 4 unnumbered leaves. Modern half-leather binding with title. Nissen 91. Pritzel 485. Sitwell/Blunt p. 73. - A decorative botanical work with numerous vividly colored illustrations. First edition. Bartsch (1761–1802), professor of medicine and botany at Jena, “was an excellent botanical illustrator, as evidenced by the figures in his works—which adhere strictly to scientific standards—all of which were drawn by him” (Nissen, p. 207). He founded the Jena Society for Natural History in 1793 and was one of Goethe’s botanical advisors. — Thoroughly browned throughout, in places somewhat stained, in places with minor marginal discoloration.