Group of three engraved botanical plates from Trew's Plantae Selectae:

£6,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

Fine images 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'. 3 hand-coloured copper engraved botanicals. Framed and glazed 45.5 x 61cm.

• Binding: Hardcover

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