Author: Happe, A. F.
Title: Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 22. Bellis perennis L. [Daisy].
Description: Berolini (Berlin), 1788. Folio-size (35.8 x 22.2 cm) delicately hand-coloured loose lithograph of plants with printed caption. = The Pharmaceutica is a very rare work; it is seldom found complete and even individual plates of plants are rare. This "everlasting beauty" (its Latin name), has a very long flowering season and will even adorn lawns with its pretty flowers in the middle of mild winters. Andreas Friedrich Happe (1733-1802) was a well-known artist, engraver, and naturalist as well as a pharmacist. He was born in Aschersleben and died in Berlin in 1802. He published a number of books on pharmaceutical botany of which the most important is his Botanica pharmaceutica… Berlin 1785 (-1806). This print of a daisy is in very good condition, with a few very small spots and some very weak, marginal creasing only. No dents or chips present. The colouring is precise and accurate. Nissen BBI, 784. Stafleu and Cowan (under 2834) "Not seen".

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