Ananas Pineapple

by After George Dionysius Ehret

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine image from Trew's 'Plantae Selectae', one of the greatest of all eighteenth-century botanical books, drawn by the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical artists, George Dionysius Ehret. Linnaeus, wrote to Trew, in Latin, that The miracles of our century in the natural sciences are your work of Ehret's plants...nothing to equal them was seen in the past or will be in the future. Christoph Trew, a physician and botanist, had for a number of years been an admirer

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