WALTER, (JOHANN ERNST CHRISTIAN)

(Blomster-Museum eller colorerede Afbildninger af de skjönneste Blomster og Siirplanter, med tydsk og dansk Beskrivelse. Udgivet af Joh. Ernst Christ. Walter, - Blumen-Museum oder colorirte Abbildungen der schönsten Blumen und Zierpflanzen, mit deutschen und dänischen Texte.)

(Copenhagen, 1838).

Large8vo (230 x 135 mm). In recent half calf with gilt lettering to spine. 9 leaves of text in Danish and German describing plate 1-54 + 52 beautifully handcoloured plates: Plate 1-53, wanting plate 45. A very fine and clean copy. 

The exceedingly rare first edition of Walter's famous "Blomster-Museum" or "Blumen-Museum". A total of 11 Hefts, each consisting of 6 plates and 1 leaf of accompanying text was published. As with his "Flora eller colorerede Afbildninger af Pragt-Blomster" it is of exceptional rarity and almost no complete copies are know. The present copy, albeit incomplete containing the first 8 hefts (except for plate 45 and 54), contain a more substantial part of the work than one can expect to find.

Order-nr.: 60239