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Besler – “Acoruscumfuoiulo” – First edition 1613

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“Acoruscumfuoiulo”

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis.

First edition, Elcstatt’s folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

1613

Draakestein – ‘Kaida’ (F4) – 1686

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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

‘Kaida’
The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

62 cm x 75 cm

Donated to the Xavier “Hearts on Fire” Ball 2014
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Draakestein – ‘Schem-pariti’ (46) – 1686

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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

64 cm x 72 cm

Basil Besler – “Eryngium” – 1713 – CGW134484/3

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“Eryngium”

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis.

Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Third Edition

Paxton – 1840

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Joseph Paxton

Magazine & Botany 1840

Hand coloured botanicals

Three – Brunonia Australis – Epacris Impressa – Mirbelia Floribunda

30 cm x 23 cm

Weinman – “Faufel Pinas” – 1736

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“Faufel Pinas”

A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from Phytanthoza Icongraphia

The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.

1736

65 cm x 51 cm

Weinman – “Sandalum” – 1736

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“Sandalum”

A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from Phytanthoza Icongraphia

The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.

1736

65 cm x 51 cm

Besler – “Aethiopis” – Third Edition 1713

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“Aethiopis”

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis.

Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Third Edition

1713

Besler – “Maluacrifpa” – First edition 1613

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“Maluacrifpa”

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis.

First edition, Elcstatt’s folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

First edition

1613

Draakestein – ‘Culi-taman’ (F 45) – 1686

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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

‘Culi-taman’

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

64 cm x 72 cm (framed)

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Besler – Narcissus Polyanthos Orientalis calice medio luteus 1613

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Narcissus Polyanthos Orientalis calice medio luteus

Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcoloured very skilfully at a later date. Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis. Without doubt one of the greatest flower books ever produced in any country. The work commemorates the celebrated gardens of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt. The book is the earliest pictorial record of flowers in a single garden. The original drawings took sixteen years to complete. Ten artists and engravers were involved, the most important being Wolfgang Kilian of Augsburg. The author, Basilius Besler (1561-1629), was a Nuremberg apothecary and botanist. The book was completed in Autumn 1613. The copper plates survived until 1817.

First edition 1613

89 cm x 75 cm

Besler – “Melocactos” – 1713 – AA1532

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‘Melocactos’

Basil Besler’s (1561-1629) great botanical work, “Hortus Eystettensis” is a landmark of botanical documentation and pre-Linnaean classification, as well as one of the most splendidly stylized and aesthetically powerful botanical works ever produced. This original hand-colored copperplate engraving, Melocactos, Pl. 254, is in excellent condition with light foxing and evidence of verso page text. Illustrated on this engraving are flowers commonly known as Pink Maltese cross, Scarlet Maltese cross and White Maltese cross. Expertly hand-colored, these herbaceous perennial plants are different shapes and colored in greens and browns, with purple, cacti-like buds on the center plant. Maltese cross plants are commonly used in gardens as decoration and were sown in Monticello by Thomas Jefferson in 1807. Basil Besler was an apothecary and botanist who managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany . The Bishop’s remarkable garden was one of the most extensive in Europe, containing a huge variety of European shrubs and flowering plants, as well as exotic specimens from Asia and the Americas. Besler used this encyclopedic resource as the basis for the “Hortus Eystettensis”, in which he studied and depicted over a thousand flowers, representing 667 species in all. With the Bishop’s patronage, he worked both as artist and publisher, directing a team of ten artists and engravers in creating 367 plates over 16 years. Published one hundred and fifty years before Linnaeus created his thorough system of classification; Besler’s great florilegium represents an impressive early attempt to classify plants for the benefit of botanists, doctors and apothecaries. Each plant is given a distinct and often descriptive Latin title, and related species are grouped together on the same plate, or over a series of plates. Almost all specimens are shown complete and accurately colored, including delineations of their root systems. While Besler’s work is obviously motivated by a scientific impulse to document and describe a remarkable collection of species, the beautiful presentation and dramatic stylization of the illustrations also convey a sense of the visual grandeur of the Bishop’s great garden. Each specimen is placed on the page with an artist’s understanding of formal and spatial relations. Most notably, the stylized depiction of foliage and root systems betrays a lively baroque sensibility, as the plants seem to dance across the page. This illustration of various flowers is among the most dramatic and desirable of Besler’s illustrations.

Third edition 1713

50 cm x 40.5 cm

Besler – “Iacea” – Third Edition 1713

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“Iacea” – No. 278

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis.

Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Third Edition

1713

52 cm x 41 cm (unframed)

Draakestein – “Caretti” – 1686

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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

64 cm x 72 cm