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BESLER, Basilius(1561 Nuremberg - 1629 Nuremberg)
Botanical illustration from "Hortus Eystettensis"
Colored copperplate engraving.
Sheet: 55 x 47 cm. Framed & behind glass : 74.5 x 59 cm.
Sheet 161 with precise representations of blue flax "Linum sylvetsre flore coeruleo", meadow goat's beard "Tragopogon flore luteo" and goat's beard "Tragopogon purpureum" from the botanical magnum opus "Hortus Eystettensis" (Eichstätter Garten) with 1100 plants from all over the world, which was published in 1613 for the first time in so-called king size (55 x 47 cm); verso with typographic text in Latin "Celeberrimi Eystetten [....]". Marginal area light browned and foxed, some traces of handling.
Limit 280 €
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Hammer price 280.00 €
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