Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus-Nüssbaüm

by Weinmann Johann Wilhelm

$575 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Folio 38.9 x 23.1 cm the sheet; 33.1 x 21.2.cm the platemark , 1 copperplate engraving numbered 782 in the plate, in color ‘mock mezzotint’ with contemporary handcolor. Excellent. Engraving of the coconut plant from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, “the first botanical book to use color printed mezzotint successfully” Hunt . Johann Wilhelm Weinmann 1683-1741 was a German botanist

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