A PAIR OF FRAMED GERMAN HAND COLORED BOTANICAL ENGRAVINGS AFTER BASILIS BESLER (German 1561-1629) "HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS," NUREMBERG, 1613, including examples of the folios "Leucojum Purpureum Variegatum and Pleno Flore Album Purpureis Maculis Signatum" and "Pseudo Struthium, Pulegium Regium, and Pulegium Cervinum," on watermarked laid paper. Height: 19 1/2" Width: 16 7/16" NOTE: Besler was a well known botanist in Nuremberg, who contributed much to the knowledge and medicinal use of flowering plants. It took sixteen years to complete over 1,000 representations of flowers for his Hortus Eytettensis (The Garden of Eichstatt). Only several hundred completed copies of the first edition were published in 1613.

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