Icones plantarum selectarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis cum descriptionibus et colendi ratione
By: auctoribus H.F. Link et F. Otto = Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens zu Berlin nebst Beschreibungen und Anleitung sie zu ziehen / von H.F. Link und F. Otto
Contributors: Otto, F. (Friedrich), 1783-1856; Guimpel, Friedrich, b. 1774, ill; Röthig, Carl, ill; Haas, P., engraver; Haas, Meno, 1752-1833, engraver; Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor
Publisher: [Decker]
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Berolini
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Plants; Botanischer Garten (Berlin, Germany)
Other titles: Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens zu Berlin
Notes: Issued in 10 parts.

The separate t.p. for Heft 1 is dated 1820.

Publisher's name has been supplied from the Gemeinsamer Verbundkatalog (GBV) online catalog record.

The plates were illustrated by F. Guimpel and Carl Röthig, and engraved by P. Haas and Meno Haas.

Includes index.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 1214

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.), 4694

Text in Latin and German.

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088006391056) has bookplate: Ex libris quos Institutioni Smithsonianae anno MCMV donavit John Donnell Smith; with stamp: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections, J.D.S., Sep. 30, 1920.

SCNHRB c. 1 has some closely cropped margins on the plates, occasionally affecting the plate numbers. There are tears in the gutter of the prelim. pages, not affecting the text.

SCNHRB c. 1 has a modern green cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine and all edges gilt. The leaves of plates are bound in at the end of the volume, following the text.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013305412) is imperfect: the added title pages for Fasciculus primus / Erstes Heft, and p. 31-[32] (featuring a publisher's note about the issuance of the parts), are wanting.

SCNHRB c. 2 has stamp on p. [3]: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, May 24, 1901; accession no.: 169580.

SCNHRB c. 2 has a printed excerpt [from Fl. Males. 4 (5)?], with dates of publication for each part, mounted on the added German t.p. for Zehn Hefte.

SCNHRB c. 2 has a later brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine. The plates are interleaved with the text and are accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.