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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  • Sobre la obra de arte
    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.
  • Sobre el artista
    Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795, Delitzsch - 1876, Berlín) fue un biólogo alemán, explorador científico y fundador de la micropaleontología, es decir, el estudio de microorganismos fósiles. Terminó sus estudios en la Universidad de Berlín en 1818 y estuvo asociado con la universidad a lo largo de su carrera. Participó en una expedición científica a Egipto, Libia, Sudán de 1820 a 1825. Junto con Von Humbold participó en un viaje a Asia Central y Siberia en 1829, cuya expedición fue patrocinada por el zar Nicolás I. Ehrenberg creía que todos los animales (pequeños o grandes) poseen sistemas de órganos completos. Entre sus obras más importantes se encuentran Reisen in Aegypten, Libyen, Nubien und Dongula (1828; Viajes por Egipto, Libia, Nubia y Dongola) y Die Infusionstierchen als volkommene Organismen (1838; La Infusiora como organismos completos).

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