Original Basilius Besler Botanical Print Jimsonweed Germander
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Excellent, framed and matted under glass. 17thC print. Original Antique Print, 22" x 16-1/2" (approx). Hand-colored engraving Hortus Eystettensis, Deluxe Edition. The first large-folio natural history botanical, Basilius Besler’s magnificent work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstätt), is the earliest pictorial record of a specific garden and the oldest of all of the great botanicals. Over 1,000 varieties of flowers are depicted in 367 exquisitely engraved and colored plates. The first botanical in history to portray flowering plants as objects of beauty, Hortus Eystettensis deviated from non-aesthetic and awkward representations of preceding publications that focused on plants as herbal subjects and set the standard for great flower folios of the following centuries.
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Excellent. See item description
Dimensions
30.5 x 26.5 x 2 in
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Original Basilius Besler Botanical Print Jimsonweed Germander
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