Die Rosen nach der Natur gezeichnet und colorirt mit kurzen Botanischen Bestimmungen begleitet (traduit de l'Allemand par M. de Lahitte)
- SIGNED 2 volumes in one, 4to
- Leipzig: Industrie-Comptoir, 1820
Leipzig: Industrie-Comptoir, 1820. 2 volumes in one, 4to. (11 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches). Title-pages and text in German and French, 60 etchings coloured by hand, some printed in red or green ink. Contemporary roan and marbled paper boards
One of the earliest and most ambitious attempts to catalogue and illustrate the diversity of the rose, regarded as the second monograph devoted entirely to the genus Rosa. Rare, with no other complete copies in auction records.
Rössig's work is widely cited as the second monograph entirely devoted to roses, after Jean Louis Marie Guillemeau's Histoire naturelle de la Rose (Paris, 1800) and preceding later standard works such as Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Les Roses (Paris, 1817-24). The project was published in 12 parts with each plate accompanied by descriptive texts in German and French. The plates were based on drawings by Luise von Wangenheim. Rössig offers an introduction in which he positions his book as an improvement upon recent British florilegia (notably Mary Lawrance) and calls for more accurate botanical illustration of contemporary rose varieties. The work provides a German-language florilegium of roses, rare at the beginning of the nineteenth century, with bilingual description. For connoisseurs and botanists the book is significant for its representation of varieties, many of which emerged from European rose-breeding in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Dunthorne 265; Nissen BBI 1666; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 9429.
One of the earliest and most ambitious attempts to catalogue and illustrate the diversity of the rose, regarded as the second monograph devoted entirely to the genus Rosa. Rare, with no other complete copies in auction records.
Rössig's work is widely cited as the second monograph entirely devoted to roses, after Jean Louis Marie Guillemeau's Histoire naturelle de la Rose (Paris, 1800) and preceding later standard works such as Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Les Roses (Paris, 1817-24). The project was published in 12 parts with each plate accompanied by descriptive texts in German and French. The plates were based on drawings by Luise von Wangenheim. Rössig offers an introduction in which he positions his book as an improvement upon recent British florilegia (notably Mary Lawrance) and calls for more accurate botanical illustration of contemporary rose varieties. The work provides a German-language florilegium of roses, rare at the beginning of the nineteenth century, with bilingual description. For connoisseurs and botanists the book is significant for its representation of varieties, many of which emerged from European rose-breeding in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Dunthorne 265; Nissen BBI 1666; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 9429.