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Asteraceae - Chrysanthemum balsamita - Tanacetum balsamita From: Icones plantarum medicinalium secundum systema Linnaei digestarium by Joseph Jacob von Plenck. Wien, Rudolph Graeffer, 1803, plate 612. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 285 x 448 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing. € 280
One of the, great Viennese books, this Icones is devoted to the medicinal properties
of native European plants, many of them figured and described here for the first
time. It is dedicated to Joseph II and very much in the ‘Jacquin’ style; in
fact, a few of the plates are re-impressions of Jacquin plates. The work is a
famous rarity; … (De Belder). Many of the 758 large hand-coloured engravings
which illustrate it are delightful, and very decorative in treatment (Blunt & Stearn).* Dunthorne 225; Blunt & Stearn p. 158; Nissen BBI 1536; Great flower books p. 70; Stafleu & Cowan 8057; De Belder 281.
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