Author: Basilius Besler
Title: Hortus Eystettensis Sive Diligens Et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stir Pium, Ex Var Iis Obis Terrae Partibus, Singulari Studio Collectarum
Description: Unknown, Unknown, c1980. Cloth. A unique facsimile reprint of Besler's earliest illustrated botanical study. A unique facsimile reprint of Besler's earliest illustrated botanical study. Illustrated title page with numerous illustrated plates throughout. Basil Besler worked on the drawings for the 374 copper engravings over a period of sixteen years using the plants in the garden of Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, his patron. Depicted in this florilegium were flowers, herbs, vegetables and newly discovered plants such as tobacco and peppers. Besler was, in modern terms, a botanist and horticulturalist, and he was familiar with real and alleged medicinal properties of various plants. Besler had the good fortune to live at a time when exotic plants were being shipped to Europe from all over the world. The garden that he organised and illustrated for his patron was both ornamental and experimental. In a cloth binding. Externally, excellent with only minor closed tear to tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound with pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Basilius Besler. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: botany facsimile Besler Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen facsimile Basilius Besler
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Title: Hortus Eystettensis Sive Diligens Et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stir Pium, Ex Var Iis Obis Terrae Partibus, Singulari Studio Collectarum
Description: Unknown, Unknown, c1980. Cloth. A unique facsimile reprint of Besler's earliest illustrated botanical study. A unique facsimile reprint of Besler's earliest illustrated botanical study. Illustrated title page with numerous illustrated plates throughout. Basil Besler worked on the drawings for the 374 copper engravings over a period of sixteen years using the plants in the garden of Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, his patron. Depicted in this florilegium were flowers, herbs, vegetables and newly discovered plants such as tobacco and peppers. Besler was, in modern terms, a botanist and horticulturalist, and he was familiar with real and alleged medicinal properties of various plants. Besler had the good fortune to live at a time when exotic plants were being shipped to Europe from all over the world. The garden that he organised and illustrated for his patron was both ornamental and experimental. In a cloth binding. Externally, excellent with only minor closed tear to tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound with pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Basilius Besler. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: botany facsimile Besler Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen facsimile Basilius Besler
Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: FGN22-G-5
- Book number: FGN22-G-5
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