Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Botanical part of Ehrenberg's great "Symbolae physicae" 1900

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

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  • Sur l'oeuvre d'art
    Symbolae physicae seu icones adhuc inedetae.
    Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1900. Large folio. With 24 engraved and lithographed plates, 23 finely coloured by hand, printed in the second quarter of the 19th century, but issued here for the first time. Text and plates loose as issued in original printed grey portfolio.

    Very rare and complete botanical section of Ehrenberg's great Symbolae physicae. The plates depict the specimens collected by Ehrenberg and Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich on their expedition to North Africa and western Asia from 1820 to 1825 (Hemprich died during the journey). The fine plates were drawn by Bartusch, Ehrenberg, Finzi, Roch and Röthig, and executed by Fink, Röthig, Weber and Wienker.
    A fine copy of this scarce botanical report. Printed on fine wove paper, wholly untrimmed and in the original printed portfolio with the title on the front in an elaborate border and a list of the first 10 plates on the back.
    Junk, Rara, p. 138; Nissen, BBI 582; Stafleu & Cowan 1643.
  • Sur l'artiste
    Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795, Delitzsch - 1876, Berlin) était un biologiste allemand, explorateur scientifique et fondateur de la micropaléontologie, c'est-à-dire de l'étude des microorganismes fossiles. Il termina ses études à l'Université de Berlin en 1818 et fut associé à l'université tout au long de sa carrière. Il participa à une expédition scientifique en Égypte, en Libye et au Soudan de 1820 à 1825. Avec Von Humbold, il participa à un voyage en Asie centrale et en Sibérie en 1829, expédition parrainée par le tsar Nicolas I. Ehrenberg croyait que tous les animaux (petits ou grand) possèdent des systèmes d'organes complets. Ses travaux les plus importants incluent Reisen dans Aegypten, Libyen, Nubien und Dongula (1828; Voyages en Egypte, Libye, Nubie et Dongola) et Die Infusionstierchen als volkommene Organismen (1838; The Infusiora as complete organizations).

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