Complete set with 187 botanical color plates
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Author: Gessner, Conrad
Title: Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum. Faksimileausgabe,...
Place Published: Zurich
Publisher:Urs Graf
Date Published: 1972-1980
Description:
Author: Gessner, Conrad
Title: Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum. Faksimileausgabe,...
Place Published: Zurich
Publisher:Urs Graf
Date Published: 1972-1980
Description:
8 volumes. Text in German. Edited by Heinrich Zoller, Martin Steinmann & Karl Schmid. With 187 full-color facsimiles of Gessner's watercolors. 46.5x32.5 cm (18.5x13"), vellum-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt; textured endpapers, publisher's jackets and slipcases. Each part of a limited numbered edition ranging from 440 to 590 copies.
An exquisite series of botanical drawings by Swiss physician and polymath Conrad Gessner in 1565. The watercolors were not discovered until 1929 in an attic at Erlangen University. These color reproductions are accompanied by the scientific and vernacular names of each plant, transcriptions of Gessner's notes, and extensive commentary.
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Ink stamps and ink limitation numbers on slipcases, touches of wear; jacket spines sunned; touches of wear to volumes; near fine.
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Complete set with 187 botanical color plates
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