Subject: Botanicals
Period: 1780 (circa)
Publication: Icones plantarum medicinalium
Color: Hand Color
Size:
4 x 7 inches
10.2 x 17.8 cm
Nice lot of botanical engravings from this rare work. The plants depicted are medicinal plants and include one of Cannabis Sativa (commonly known as marijuana). Mostly unattributed, however two are identified as drawn by B. Thanner. 1) Cardamine pratensis 2) Plantago psyllium 3) Melissa officinalis 4) Athamanta cervaria. L. 5) Athamanta Oreoselinum. L. 6) Apium graveolens 7) L. Polyonum aviculare 8) L. Astragalas tragacantha L. 9) Cannabis sativa. mas. L. 10) Lepidium Iberis L.
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Condition: A
Brown ink manuscript notations in bottom margin, else clean and bright.
