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Botanical Art Notebook Set

3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines
By Bodleian Library
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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, an apothecary and founder of a botanic garden in Regensburg, created an extensive catalogue of plants with detailed illustrations. His work, Phytanthoza Iconographia, published between 1737 and 1745, includes over 1,025 colour plates showcasing fruit and vegetables, featuring early colour mezzotint techniques. This notebook set reproduces three exquisite plates from the collection.
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Ideal for gardeners, botanical art enthusiasts, and those who appreciate historical plant illustration.

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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who set about producing a highly detailed catalogue featuring 1,025 plates of plants and their uses. Three of the exquisite plates are reproduced in this lovely set of A5 softback notebooks: the perfect gift for gardeners and connoisseurs of botanical illustration.

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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set about producing a highly detailed catalogue of plants and their uses, with illustrations commissioned from some of the finest engravers of the time. The resulting Phytanthoza Iconographia is an immense work, contained within several volumes published between 1737 and 1745. It features no fewer than 1,025 beautiful colour plates — including early examples of colour mezzotint — of all manner of fruit and vegetables.

Three of the exquisite plates are reproduced in this lovely set of A5 softback notebooks: the perfect gift for gardeners and connoisseurs of botanical illustration.

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ISBN: 9781851245697

Publisher: Bodleian Library

Format: Notebook / blank book

Date Published: 14 May 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bodleian Library

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 262g

Pages: 144

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The Bodleian Library produces beautiful and authoritative books which help to bring the riches of Oxford’s libraries to readers around the world. They publish on a very wide range of subjects, including catalogues and other titles related to their exhibitions, illustrated and non-illustrated thematic works and facsimiles, gift books, and children’s books and stationery.

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