Elizabeth Blackwell (c.1700-1758) [ Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum id est Elisabethae Blackwell Collectio Stirpium quae in Pharmocopoliis ad Medicum usum asservantur. ] Nuremburg: printed by Johann Joseph Fleischmann, circa 1773]. Volumes VI only (of 6), 2° (437 x 275mm). Without titles or text. 77 fine hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 110), the majority by Nikolaus Friedrich Eisenberger many heightened with gum arabic. (Some light marginal spotting) Contemporary German boards (rebacked in vellum). Provenance : early Dutch inscription indentifying the contents. A good selection of images from the final volume of the German edition of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal . Cf. Arnold Aboretum p.86; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.75; cf. Nissen BBI 169; cf. Pritzel 812; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 546; cf. Wellcome II,p.174. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Elizabeth Blackwell (c.1700-1758) [ Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum id est Elisabethae Blackwell Collectio Stirpium quae in Pharmocopoliis ad Medicum usum asservantur. ] Nuremburg: printed by Johann Joseph Fleischmann, circa 1773]. Volumes VI only (of 6), 2° (437 x 275mm). Without titles or text. 77 fine hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 110), the majority by Nikolaus Friedrich Eisenberger many heightened with gum arabic. (Some light marginal spotting) Contemporary German boards (rebacked in vellum). Provenance : early Dutch inscription indentifying the contents. A good selection of images from the final volume of the German edition of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal . Cf. Arnold Aboretum p.86; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.75; cf. Nissen BBI 169; cf. Pritzel 812; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 546; cf. Wellcome II,p.174. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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