Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society

Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society

£220.99
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Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
  • Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
Hortus Eystettensis - Eichstatt Garden Prospectus - Science - Folio Society
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Hortus Eystettensis - The Garden at Eichstatt - Prospectus 13 pages

£220.99
Edition year 2008
Printing year Not Known
First edition Not Known
Weight 1.5 Kg
Condition Good
Condition notes In good overall condition. Light sunning, foxing and marks to cover and a few pages.

Edition details

Hortus Eystettensis - The Garden at Eichstatt - Prospectus. It contains facsimiles of 13 pages from the book, including the wonderfully over-the-top title page with its beautiful inset image of the Garden of Eden. The plates show, among others, the anemone, carnation, martagon lily and red chilli pepper, and a beautiful page of familiar wildflowers such as borage, cowslip and herba trinitatis – known to Shakespeare as love-in-idleness and to us as the pansy. The blind blocking on the cover is to the same design as the facsimile edition. Prospectus of the limited edition of 1450 copies of which 50 are reserved for Folio Society members.

About the book

This prospectus concerns Hortus Eystettensis, the celebrated seventeenth-century botanical work created by Basilius Besler to document the plants grown in the gardens of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The original Hortus Eystettensis is renowned for its large botanical illustrations, which record hundreds of flowering plants, herbs and exotic species with exceptional detail. The prospectus introduces Besler's project, the garden at Eichstätt and the historical importance of the original botanical book. It places the work within the development of botanical illustration and early modern natural history, explaining why Hortus Eystettensis is regarded as one of the most ambitious and beautiful flower books of the seventeenth century.
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