1742 1st Edtn PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA, SIVE CONSPECTUS VOL III By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann Very Good Science
1742 1st Edition ,
PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA, SIVE CONSPECTUS VOL III
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683 - 1741) was born in Gardelegen, Germany on March 13, 1683. He settled in Regensburg in 1710 as a pharmacist's assistant and in 1712 was able to purchase his own apothecary shop. He flourished in his business affairs and this success allowed him to indulge in his great love for botany. He established a botanical garden in Regensburg published a Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca in 1723.
In 1737-1745 Weinmann published Phytanthoza iconographia. His great work comprised eight folios with 1025 hand-colored engravings of several thousand plants. Among the artists employed to work on Phytanthoza was Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770).
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Format: Hardcover,
Language: Latin/German
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: Ratisbonae per Hieronymum Lenzium, Switzerland
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 448
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The most influential botanical record of its time, an extremely valuable record of the plant kingdom as it was understood in the mid-eighteenth century. The plants are ordered alphabetically, as was done just preceding the introduction of Linnaeus' revolutionary system of classification.
SKU: BTETM0002366
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 20, L: 60, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
1742 1st Edition ,
PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA, SIVE CONSPECTUS VOL III
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683 - 1741) was born in Gardelegen, Germany on March 13, 1683. He settled in Regensburg in 1710 as a pharmacist's assistant and in 1712 was able to purchase his own apothecary shop. He flourished in his business affairs and this success allowed him to indulge in his great love for botany. He established a botanical garden in Regensburg published a Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca in 1723.
In 1737-1745 Weinmann published Phytanthoza iconographia. His great work comprised eight folios with 1025 hand-colored engravings of several thousand plants. Among the artists employed to work on Phytanthoza was Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770).
Illustrated By:
Format: Hardcover,
Language: Latin/German
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: Ratisbonae per Hieronymum Lenzium, Switzerland
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 448
ISBN:
The most influential botanical record of its time, an extremely valuable record of the plant kingdom as it was understood in the mid-eighteenth century. The plants are ordered alphabetically, as was done just preceding the introduction of Linnaeus' revolutionary system of classification.
SKU: BTETM0002366
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 20, L: 60, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
1742 1st Edition ,
PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA, SIVE CONSPECTUS VOL III
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683 - 1741) was born in Gardelegen, Germany on March 13, 1683. He settled in Regensburg in 1710 as a pharmacist's assistant and in 1712 was able to purchase his own apothecary shop. He flourished in his business affairs and this success allowed him to indulge in his great love for botany. He established a botanical garden in Regensburg published a Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca in 1723.
In 1737-1745 Weinmann published Phytanthoza iconographia. His great work comprised eight folios with 1025 hand-colored engravings of several thousand plants. Among the artists employed to work on Phytanthoza was Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770).
Illustrated By:
Format: Hardcover,
Language: Latin/German
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: Ratisbonae per Hieronymum Lenzium, Switzerland
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 448
ISBN:
The most influential botanical record of its time, an extremely valuable record of the plant kingdom as it was understood in the mid-eighteenth century. The plants are ordered alphabetically, as was done just preceding the introduction of Linnaeus' revolutionary system of classification.
SKU: BTETM0002366
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 20, L: 60, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
Very Good - Full calf rebacked with gilt tooled compartmentalized spine, ex libris label to pastedown, blue ink engraved frontis, double title page in Latin and German, red and black ink, pagination complete pp.448, no plates Please see photos as part of condition report
