TREW, Christoph Jakob (1695 – 1769)
1695 – 1769
1 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source unknown engraver · Plantae selectae … pinxit Georgius Donysius Ehret …. 1750–1773 , via imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr · Public domain
1754 CE–1759 CE
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Opera botanica per duo saecula desiderata vitam auctoris et operis historiam cordi librum quintum cum adnotationibus Gesneri in totum opus ut et Wolphii fragmentum historiae plantarum Gesnerianae adiunctis indicibus iconum tam olim editarum... ex bibliotheca C.J. Trew. Nunc primum in lucem edidit et praefatus est Casimirus Christophorus Schmiedel. 2 vols.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) SCHMIEDEL, Casimir Christoph (1718 – 1792) TREW, Christoph Jakob (1695 – 1769)
Stricken with the plague at the age of 49, Gesner was unable to complete his Historia plantarum (See No. 1807.) His collection of botanical watercolors changed hands several times until they were acquired by the physi…