122:"Nature's selfprinting[:] a series of useful and ornamental plants of the South Indian flora[.] Taken from fresh specimens in facsimile colours. Mangalore, "Botanographed and published by J. Hunziker, Basel Mission Press", 1862 (Binding label: Printed and published for V. P. Coelho esquire, etc.). Imperial 4to (42 x 33 cm). With 3 colour-printed preliminary leaves, and 231 nature-printed plates in several colours, printed by an experimental process transferring the image to a litho stone. Publisher's original gold-tooled green half morocco"
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of specimens gathered by himself and his colleagues. These 'nature prints', termed 'botanautography' by
Hunziker, were made by coating leaves with suitable printing ink and pressing them firmly onto a litho stone, leaving a realistic colour impression. The first book printed by this process appeared
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Mission. The plants included ferns which were later examined by August Binz at the Basel Botanical Institute. The plants were named in Kannada at the bottom of the page and Latin names were added below them. In 1861 he issued a short edition called
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Press to work there as a printer, his mandate being the production of Bibles, school books and maps. He became interested in the local plants and with modest botanical knowledge produced a work called
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which included 114 species of plants. This copy has not been traced. Hunziker thought that he would fill a gap in the lack of illustrations which he found among contemporary works like
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under the name of a local timber merchant, Venantius Peter Coelho, who clearly was a sponsor of the work. Later in 1862 the plates were published in
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