The Besler Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons

by Basilius Besler, Gerard G. Aymonin, Pierre Gascar, Eileen

$350 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989. Oversize color reproduction of Nuremberg apothecary and botanist Basilius Besler's beautiful 1613 work Hortus Eystettensis, describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's creme cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with two tiny scuffs to the front panel, a little toning, housed in Fine

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