Lactuca crispa. Lactuca florescens. by GERMAN HERBAL - LETTUCE) - No date. Ca. 1600.
by GERMAN HERBAL - LETTUCE)
Lactuca crispa. Lactuca florescens.
by GERMAN HERBAL - LETTUCE)
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No date. Ca. 1600.. Two woodcuts (each approximately 5 x 3 inches), hand colored, on single sheet 8 1/2 x 14 inches, text on verso. Faint dampstain to lower edge, some faint spots and a couple of short edge tears, overall very good condition. Beautifully designed and executed wood cuts of two lettuce plants, showing flowers, leaves, roots. Coloring appears to be early hand color, simple and carefully done. Page 159 from an unidentified old German language (fraktur) herbal, possibly Mattioli’s "Kreuterbuch ...." (Jacob Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1611) a German version of his "Pedacii Dioscoridis de materia medica libri sex" first published in Venice 1558. .
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- Book Condition Used
- Date Published No date. Ca. 1600.
- Keywords Botanical Print, flowers, German, German language, Germany, handcolored, herbal, print, zz_22_WS_40_off, zzprintg