BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis. [Altdorf: Konrad Bauer], 1613 [or later].
2° (580 x 461mm to 505 x 398mm). 55 hand-coloured engraved plates. (2 with small repaired tears in the margins, one with thin tape backing at the margins, some show-through of text, some plates with later colouring.) Loose in mounts.
Fifty-five plates from the first great florilegium 'splendid in its array of large drawings, magnificent as a record of the plants in a German garden at the beginning of the seventeenth century', Hunt. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (55)
BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis. [Altdorf: Konrad Bauer], 1613 [or later].
2° (580 x 461mm to 505 x 398mm). 55 hand-coloured engraved plates. (2 with small repaired tears in the margins, one with thin tape backing at the margins, some show-through of text, some plates with later colouring.) Loose in mounts.
Fifty-five plates from the first great florilegium 'splendid in its array of large drawings, magnificent as a record of the plants in a German garden at the beginning of the seventeenth century', Hunt. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (55)
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