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Knorr, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761)

Recueil choisi de desseins de flexors à l'usage des
dames, à l'aide duquel on peut apprendre très facilement
et sans beaucoup d'instruction l'art de dessiner les
fleurs. Nuremberg, chez les heritiers de feu G. W.
Knorr [n.d.] 2 fasc. of col. pi. F°. (Bib. Nat.
Paris)

Thesavrvs rei herbariae hortensisqve vniversalis, exhibens 
figvras florvm, herbarvm, arborvm, frvticvm, aliarvmqve 
plantarvm prorsvs novas, et ad ipsos delineatas
depictasqve archetypos nativis coloribvs ... Apud Georgii
Wolfgangi Knorrii haeredes ... Allgemeines blumer-kräuter-
frucht- und garten-buch. Nürnberg, Gedruckt bey P. J.
Felssecker, 1770-72. (Dept. Agr.; Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.;
Kew; Lindley; Bib. Nat. Paris)
According to Pritzel the plates, which are
in many independent groups, should total 301 for
the 1st and 102 for the 2d pt. The text of the
Dept. Agr. copy, however, states that th.1, 1770,
contains 200 pl., and th.2, 1772, 101 pl. This
agrees with the total of 301 given by Kayser, 3:
371, and Brunet, 4:439. Other entries do not
give the number of plates.

The first plates of this work appear to have
been issued under the title: "Regnum florae, das
reich der blumen", and Bib. Nat. Paris has a set
of 101 plates with this title, undated, but published 
at Nürnberg, by G. W. Knorr. These are apparently 
identical with those of th.2, 1772, but
the latter are entirely rearranged.
Bib. Nat. Paris also has copy under the title:
"Thesaurus rei herbariae hortensisque", including
both plates and text by Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
and Georg Rudolph Boehmer, with imprint: "Nürnberg, 
G. W. Knorr, 1750", indicating that some
part, at least, of the text had been issued at
that date, and confirming Pritzel's statement
that there are copies of vol.1 dated 1750.
In the Dept. Agr. copy text and plates are
bound separately, the latter preceded by a decorated 
half-title: "Regnum florae" etc., forming
the 2d vol. of the work.

----- Nürnberg, 1788-89. 403 pl. in 2 v. F°.
(Bradley Bib. 1:292)
        