(Karlsruhe)THRAN, Christian.   HORTUS CAROLSRUHANUS   In Tres Ordines Digestus Exhibens Nomina Plantarum Exoticarum, Perrennium & Annuarum, Quae Aluntur Per Christianum Thran, Horti Praefectum. Accedit Aurantrum Cilreorum, Limonumque Malorum Catalogus Auctore Josua Rislero.     &nbspLoeraci: Literis Samuelis Augusti de la Carriere,   1747.          Rare catalogue of the important collection of plants growing in the gardens at Karl Wilhelm's palace at Karlsruhe, where Thran was the head gardener. Karl Wilhelm had sent Thran on a three year expedition to northern Africa in the early 1730s and the fruits of his plant hunting, along with the lavish expenditures of his patron, helped Thran to assemble what was in its day one of the most impressive collections of rare and exotic garden plants in all of Europe. Altogether 2993 plants are listed with brief annotations, together with a separate catalogue, prepared by J. Risler, of 154 fruit trees. Rare. Not in Hunt, and Pritzel lists only Thran's much shorter INDEX PLANTORUM of 1731. OCLC locates only 2 copies (both in France).   8vo (18 x 10 cm); xiv + 224 + 14 + (2) pp.            Contemporary calf; spine ends worn, short split in lower front joint. $2,500.00

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