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Trew, Christop Jacob   1695 Lauf an der Pegnitz - 1769 Nürnberg

Uitgezochte Planten,.. Uit het Latyn vertaald en met aantekeningen verrykt door Cornelius Pereboom.

Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, (1769)-1771-(1774).

The first Dutch Edition Of Trew´s  PLANTAE SELECTAE.

Full of EXOTIC AMERICAN SPECIMENS. 'George Dionysius Ehret

( 1708-1770), botanical artist, originally trained as a gardener,

initially working on estates of German nobility, and painted

flowers as a hobby, taught by his father; a good draughtsman. His

first major sale of flower paintings came through Dr Christoph

Joseph Trew, eminent physician and botanist of Nuremberg,

who recognized his exceptional talent and became both

patron and lifelong friend. Ehret sent him large batches

of watercolours on the fine-quality paper Trew provided.

In 1733 Trew taught Ehret the botanical importance of floral

sexual organs and advised that he should show them in detail

in his paintings. Many Ehret watercolours were engraved

in Trew's works, such as Hortus Nitidissimus and Plantae

selectae in part two of which Trew named the genus Ehretia

after him.

Folio ( 53,5 x 38 cm) vi. 72pp., with 100 hand-coloured engraved 

plates by J.J. Haid after G.D. Ehret.

One of the greatest eighteen-century botanical colourplate book

in very good condition.