{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":48398,"auction_id":97,"set_id":128,"lot_number":"123","artist":"Manuel Blanco","title":"Flora de Filipinas\n[Flora of the Philippines]","starting_price":18000,"signed_dated":"Manila: Colegio de Santo Tomás, 1877-1880, 6 vols.","medium":null,"size":"size: 17 3/4\" x 13\" (45 cm x 33 cm) each\ndepth: 1 1/2\" (4 cm)","property":null,"coa":"CONDITION REPORT\nHARDBOUND\nFIRST PAGES OF EACH VOLUME ARE DAMAGED, COVER IS NOT ORIGINAL","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The first edition of this well-known monumental work about the Philippines' seeds, plants, shrubs, fruits, and trees saw its first edition in 1837. It was then entitled Flora de Filipinas. According to the sexual system of Linneo [Flora of the Philippines, according to the sexual system of Linnaeus]. It is known that this first edition was written by Father Blanco in his leisure time, with no intention of publishing it because in his own words: \"it was never my thought to form a treatise on plants worthy of public light. A simple curiosity made me write what I found interesting. The history of the plants of the Philippines is a worthy undertaking for a professional botanist who deserves the confidence of the learned\". However, such was the fame it acquired that a royal order from Madrid ordered its printing. This first edition consists of eight hundred and eighty-seven pages of text written in Spanish, preceded by seventy-eight containing an introduction, which can be considered a small treatise on botany, whose importance is increased by the botanical nomenclature, arranged in the form of a dictionary of technical terms used in the text and a list of the genera studied in the volume. It describes 903 species and varieties with Latin names, and thirty-one with native terms only. Linnaeus' system has many interspersed observations in which he explains their possible applications in medicine and their practical usefulness for industry and commerce. Next to the scientific names appear the vulgar terms Tagalog, Bicol, Bisayan, Ilocano, and Pampango, and at the foot of each description are the locality or localities corresponding to each species. It includes plants existing almost exclusively on the island of Luzon, particularly in Manila and adjoining provinces. A second edition, corrected and enlarged, was published in 1845. Almost in the same style as the first, the plants included are 1,131 species and varieties. However, this third edition, although attributed to Blanco on his own merits, was a collective work in which the fathers Celestino Fernández Villar and Andrés Naves, also botanists, played a primordial role. The first three volumes, based on the text of the second edition, contain the definitive work, revised and enlarged by Father Blanco, translated into Latin, and accompanied by many plates that have given this edition its just fame. The great Philippine artist Regino García y Basa drew them all. The fourth volume contains the botanical studies of Father Llanos —continuator of Father Blanco— and Father Ignacio Mercado (1648-1698). The latter was a mestizo born in Manila, so he must be considered the first Filipino botanist. The title of his pioneering work is \"Libro de medicinas de esta tierra y declaraciones de las virtudes de los árboles y plantas que están en estas Islas Filipinas\" (Book of Medicines of this Land and Statements of the Virtues of the Trees and Plants that are in these Philippine Islands). The fourth volume also includes the Novissima Appendix by Fathers Andres Naves and Celestino Fernandez-Villar, which is an attempt to revise and critically analyze the species of the first and second editions of Fr. Blanco's Flora Filipina, adding all the new botanical research concerning the Philippine archipelago. Fr. Blanco arrived in the Philippines in April 1805. He began his botanical work with few means, without feeling himself a professional in the field and without a teacher or contact with European scholars who could advise him. Short of reference books, the most updated information and reference he had was Linnaeus' Vegetabilium System. Without herbariums with which to compare his plants and resolve doubts, and considering that each of the scientific conclusions noted were the result of his observation, his Flora is in itself a monument to his zeal and talent since it was the first work on this subject that saw the light of day in that land. He died in 1845. The work of Father Blanco has been the object of admiration and recognition, and many botanists have paid homage to the illustrious Augustinian botanist by giving his surname to new plants discovered. The entire work, of which 1500 copies were printed with a luxurious red and gold binding, was conceived as an Augustinian tribute to the members of his corporation who had contributed the most to the knowledge of Philippine botany. An exceptional work from the scientific and typographical point of view, it is common to find its beautiful plates sold individually in antiquarian bookstores.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1300000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1300000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":1562080,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":48469,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/123.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":122,"next":124,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}