[Botany] Wendland, J. Chr. Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones

Abbildung und Beschreibung der Heiden. Hannover, Gebr. Hahn, Hanschen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1798-1823. 12 issues, incl. 2 double-issues. 4to (approx. 24.5 x 29.5 cm). With 78 (of 162) full-page engr. plates, dep. a wide variety of species of heather with seeds and flowers, printed in green and finely finished by hand. In 20th-cent. hcl., spine gilt in compartments w. morocco title-lables.

14 of 27 issues published. Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828), chief gardener of Herrenhausen (Hannover), worked on this publication for sixteen years, with an interval of almost nine years during the Napoleonic Wars in Germany. Present here are Heft 1-6/7, 13, 20-22, 24, 26/27. Fine large-paper copy.