Agave Americana, Aloe Mucronato folio Americana major; N. 42

by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

$500 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer. Botanical. Color mezzotint with hand coloring. Page measures 16.25 x 10.5 . Lovely depiction of an agave plant in a decorative vessel from the four-volume study of flowers and plants, Phytanthoza Iconographia edited by Johann Weinmann between 1737 and 1745. Both accurate and beautiful, these prints were the first botanical color mezzotints, a revolutionary method that

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