Florilegivm Emanvelis SweertI Septimonti Batavi, Amsteledami com[m]orantis : tractans de variis florib[us] et aliis indicis pla[n]tis ad viuum delineatum in duabus partib[us] et quatuor linguis concinnatum

Sweerts, Emanuel, 1552-1612 · 1612 · Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Apud Anthonium Kempner, sumptib[us] autoris · 8 pictures

Florilegium by Emanuel Sweerts, a Flemish-Dutch botanical picture book printed in Frankfurt in 1612 for florists and botanists. Its copperplate engravings show bulbs, irises, alliums and thistle-like flowers in precise, labelled plates, offering a designer clear botanical line drawings with lettered captions for reference on natural forms and period typography.

Flowers · Botany -- Early works to 1800

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