Annonaceae
Saccopetalum horsfieldii
From: Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibus illustratae, … by John Joseph Bennett, Robert Brown & Thomas Horsfield.
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Annonaceae - Annona africana - Anona affricana
From: Histoire universelle du règne végétal, ou nouveau dictionnaire physique et économique de toutes les plantes qui croissent sur la surface du globe; … by Pierre Joseph Buchoz.
Paris, Brunet, 1775-1780. Engraving with plant names (uncut sheet 260 x 420 mm). Text missing.
€ 95
This print is among 1200 plates from this most extensive work, published from 1775-1780 by the extremely prolific author Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807, also spelled as Buch’oz or Buc’hoz). He was a French physician and naturalist who served as physician to the king of Poland. He left his post to pursue his interest in natural history and published vast illustrated folios on botany, books on mineralogy, agriculture, ornithology and medicine. The attractive plates are mostly based on original drawings in the Collection des Vélins of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Artists’ names on the the copper-engravings seldom occur and as engraver Fessard is sometimes mentioned.
* Pritzel 1325; Dunthorne 59; Blunt & Stearn pp. 158-160; Nissen BBI 287; Stafleu & Cowan 876; Johnston 524.		 Annonaceae - Annona africana - Anona affricana
Annonaceae - Saccopetalum horsfieldii
London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852, plate 35. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 262 x 373 mm). Text missing.
~ € 130
Horsfield, an American surgeon and naturalist lived in Java for sixteen years, employed by the East India Co., where he assembled a herbarium amounting to some 2100 species. On his return to England he entrusted the cataloguing and identification of the specimens to Robert Brown, who also arranged publication. The determinations and descriptions were mostly the work of Bennett. The finely engraved 50 plates are by John Curtis and E. Weddell after Charles and John Curtis.
* Pritzel 613; Jackson p. 396*; Great flower books p. 49; Nissen BBI 934; Stafleu & Cowan 418.
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