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‎Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntnis und derselben nützlichen Anwendung. Mit hundert illuminirten Tafeln. - [THE BIRTH OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION]‎

‎Zürich, Verlag des Waysenhauses, 1774 -(77). Folio. Bound in cont. marbled boards. Gilt lettering on back. The marbled paper over boards as well as back and edges in some places torn, especially spine and corners. Kept in a fine morocco-backed box. Title-page with a large engraved vignette. (4), 129, (1) pp., 2 engraved plates (Tab. A+B) with 58 hand-coloured illustrations to Linné (C.L.J. Gesneri delin - Bullinger sculpsit) and 100 wood-cut plates (with 101 illustrations of plants (plate 47 verso with an illustr.). All in fine original hand-colouring. Printed on good paper, internally fine and clean.‎

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‎First (and only) edition of Schinz's reissue of 101 plates from Leonhart Fuch's ""De Historia Stirpium"", Basel 1542, a work which marks the birth of botanical illustration and perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published. The selection by Schinz of 101 illustrations from Fuch's work (containing 512 plates) was printed with the original wood-blocks, which Schinz borrowed from Chorherr Gessner, in the possession of whom they were to be found. In talking about the girls and boys from the ""Waysenhaus"" colouring the plates, Schinz said (in the Vorrede): ""Ich freute mich, da mir der Gedanke glücklicher Weise beyfil, dass mein Oheim Hr. Doctor und Chorherr Gessner die ganze Sammlung der Holzformen von den Pflanzenhistorie des Herrn Leonhard Fuchsen besitze, und dass diese zu einem Versuche in dieser projectirten Beschäftigung dienen könnten."" In this way the plates are original, the prints taken from the original blocks (Originalstöchen) and hand-coloured in the years 1774-77. ""The plates established the requisites of botanical illustration - virisimilitude in form and habit, and accuracy of significent detail."" (A.G. Morton).""Fuch's plates in particular played a curious but important part in the development of systematic botany owing to the fact that they were extensively pirated and appeared in very many works during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and even later."" (A.G. Morton).""Far more impressive in appearance, though less sensitive in execution, is the great folio herbal, De Stirpium, of Leonhart Fuchs, published in Basle in 1542. With its hundreds of full-page illustrations of plants, it deservedly ranks as the first of that long line of monumental flower-books which during the last four hundred years have poured from the printing-presses of Europe. Many other fine herbals - those for instance of the Italian Matthioli - were issued during the sixteenth century, but none was quite so lavishly illustrated."" (Wilfrid Blunt in Great Flower Books p. 27). - Nissen No 1761 - Hunt No 640. Dibner No 19 (Fuchs) - Printing a. The Mind of Man No 69 (Fuchs).‎

‎Die Reise auf den Uetliberg im Junius 1774. Neudruck der Ausgabe 1775, mit einem Nachwort von Arthur Welti.‎

‎Zürich, Morgarten, 1942, in-8vo (quer), 1 montiertes farb. Front. + 43 S. mit 10 ganzseit. (davon 1 doppelbl.gr.) Abbildung, Wünschkarte lose Beigelegt v. Water Alicke für Peter Obergfell, / Exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, Pappband mit 1 farb. goldgepr. Schild auf dem vord. Einbanddeckel, Rücken mit Bibl.-Sign.‎

‎Dr. Salomon Schinz war ein "Tausendsassa" der damaligen Naturwissenschaften. "Kein Wunder, dass der bedeutende Mann in Zürichs Rate sass" (aus dem Nachwort). bild‎

‎Prolusio Dissertationum De Utilitate Scientiae Physicae. In Rite et Ex Omni Parte Obeundo Munere Sacro Adjiciuntur annotationes quaedam de Scientia Physiognomonica Ejusque Recto Usu.‎

‎Turici (Zurich), ex officina Gessneriana. 1780. 35 pages. (24x18 Cm). Broché, couverture de l'époque en papier décoré. Plis et traces de plis. Petit manque angulaire. Déchirures au dos. Dissertation très rare sur la physiognomonie. Après avoir exposé l'utilité des sciences physiques et les erreurs de la superstition, le médecin zurichois Salomon Schinz analyse et louange longuement les travaux de son compatriote Lavater qui venait de publier son livre désormais classique: le "Physiognomische Fragmente". Très bon exemplaire imprimé sur papier fort. Petits plis et traces de plis. Très rares taches. ‎

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‎Die Reise auf den Uetliberg im Junius 1774.‎

‎Zürich, Morgarten-Verlag, 1942. Quer-8°. 43 S. Mit 1 farb. Frontisp. und zahlr. Abbildungen. Orig.-Halbleinenband (minim berieben und bestossen).‎

‎Nachwort von Arthur Welti. - Mit einer handschriftlichen Widmung und einer beigelegten handschriftlichen Karte an Emil Bögli, den Kur- (Tourismus-) Direktor von Gstaad.‎