Basilius Besler's Florilegium: The Book of Plants - The Complete Plates - manbookgalery.com
<b>Botanical beauty.</b><br /><i>Basilius Besler's complete</i> Hortus Eystettensis <i>of 1613.</i><br /><br />A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the <i>Hortus Eystettensisis</i> is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.<br />First published in 1613, the 367 copperplate engravings by Basilius Besler (1561-1629) capture the spectacular diversity of the palatial gardens of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95-1612) in Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany. The meticulous illustrations are organized according to the four seasons, and, following the classification system used today, show plants belonging to a total of 90 families and covering 340 genera. The whole collection is regarded as one of the finest treasures of botanical literature, described by Carl Linnaeus, the legendary 18th-century botanist and zoologist, as an “incomparable work”. <br />Besler's pictorial catalogue long outlived
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