Melo vulgaris, Melon … with Melo viridis striatus et maculosus …

by Weinmann Johann Wilhelm

$550 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Folio 33 x 21 cm the platemark , 2 copperplate engraving numbered 721 and 723 in the plate, in color ‘mock mezzotint’ with contemporary handcolor. Excellent. Two engravings of melon plants 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 and apothecary

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