With 36 engraved botanical plates.
Johan August Pfeiffer (ed.) & Olof Swartz (text):
Magasin för blomster-älskare och idkare af trägårds-skötsel.
Stockholm, Carl Delen, 1803 [-1809]. Small folio. (27,8 x 22 cms.) Title + 8 pp. "Om blomsters skötsel" (On the Care of Flowers) + 36 engraved plates in various techniques, each with a leaf of text.
Modern half green morocco, spine decorated in gilt with orange label.
Literature
Great Flower Books 1700-1900, p. 70.
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Issued in 12 parts. In this copy the back wrapper to part 1 with ”Prospectus”, front printed wrappers to parts 2-12 as well as back wrapper with ”Anmälan” to part 3 are bound in. All plates except the three issued in part one uncoloured, consequently giving information about the various types of engraving used. The text was written by Olof Swartz and the plates were engraved by Pfeiffer, O. Venus and J. G. Ruchman after drawings by Pfeiffer.
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