Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 180
6. May - 18. May 2022
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 180
6. May - 18. May 2022
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 1.512 GBP
Price realised: 1.512 GBP
Description
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
Illustratio specierum aconiti generis, additis delphiniis quibusdam. Neue Bearbeitung der Arten der Gattung Aconitum, und einiger Delphinien. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, 1823-1827
Folio (400 x 259mm.), parallel Latin and German text, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates plus an uncoloured lithograph (plate XXXVI), a few plates on shorter paper, original printed brown boards, UNCUT, printed instructions to binder pasted to inside front cover, in modern half green morocco drop-backed box, some light foxing, a few leaves becoming loose, boards slightly worn and stained
The detailed plates are mostly by Schnorr, Zumpe, Harzer and Täubert. Reichenbach, the founder of the Dresden Botanical Garden, had previously published a shorter work on aconites, Monographia generis aconiti (1821), with only 18 plates.
LITERATURE:
Cleveland Herbal 871; Dunthorne 259; Nissen BBI 1605
PROVENANCE:
Hahnemann Epps (1843-1916, nephew of James Epps the cocoa manufacturer), bookplate
Illustratio specierum aconiti generis, additis delphiniis quibusdam. Neue Bearbeitung der Arten der Gattung Aconitum, und einiger Delphinien. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, 1823-1827
Folio (400 x 259mm.), parallel Latin and German text, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates plus an uncoloured lithograph (plate XXXVI), a few plates on shorter paper, original printed brown boards, UNCUT, printed instructions to binder pasted to inside front cover, in modern half green morocco drop-backed box, some light foxing, a few leaves becoming loose, boards slightly worn and stained
The detailed plates are mostly by Schnorr, Zumpe, Harzer and Täubert. Reichenbach, the founder of the Dresden Botanical Garden, had previously published a shorter work on aconites, Monographia generis aconiti (1821), with only 18 plates.
LITERATURE:
Cleveland Herbal 871; Dunthorne 259; Nissen BBI 1605
PROVENANCE:
Hahnemann Epps (1843-1916, nephew of James Epps the cocoa manufacturer), bookplate
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards by Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach was auctioned at Sothebys in London in May last year. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of GBP 1,500.00 – 2,000.00, the actual price achieved of GBP 1,512.00 (€ 1,778.72) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work [Die Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel des In- und Auslandes. -- A collection of ten albums containing about 940 mounted ornithological illustrations, including 771 original watercolours and drawings on 640 sheets, c. 1845-1862. 10 volumes, 4° (|AID948840] in November 2000 with an auction result of G
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Illustratio specierum aconitis generis, Leipzig, 1823-1827, original boards von Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach kam im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in London zur Auktion. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von GBP 1.500,00 – 2.000,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von GBP 1.512,00 (€ 1.778,72) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit [Die Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel des In- und Auslandes. -- A collection of ten albums containing about 940 mounted ornithological illustrations, including 771 original watercolours and drawings on 640 sheets, c. 1845-1862. 10 volumes, 4° (|AID948840] im November 2000 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 69.750,00 (€ 114.003,62).
Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach - Auction history
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