Elisabeth Blackwell - Botany, Herbarium Blackwellianum ... Centuria V. ... VI., 1765-1773, 212 copperplates - Old prints, rare books and bibliophile books for sale

Author: Blackwell, Elisabeth

Publisher: Eisenberger, Nicolas Friedrich

Published: Nuremberg

Publishing year: 1765

Blackwell, Elisabeth (1707-1758). "Herbarium Blackwellianum ... Collectio Stirpium quae in Pharmacopoliis ad Medicum usum asservantur ... Centuria V. Ultima cum Praefatione ... Christoph. Iacobi Trew [et] Centuria VI. ... Vermehrtes und verbessertes Blackwellisches Kräuter-Buch das ist ... Sammlung der Gewächse ... Fünftes und letztes Hundert [et] Sechstes Hundert". According to his own drawings, engraved and published by N. N. Eisenberger in Nuremberg. Printed by Ch. de Lavnoy (heirs), 1765 and J. J. Fleischmann, 1773. Folio. (41) leaves, engraved title, 102 old coloured botanical copperplate engravings (each ca. 30,5:20 cm); (42) leaves, engraved title, 110 botanical copperplate engravings. Orig. leather binding from the time with title labels and rich gilding on the spine.

Text in Latin and German. - Leather on the spine at the top and bottom abraded, a bit stained throughout, plate nr. 401 (first in Centuria V.) with larger waterstain, otherwise clean and well preserved.