(Centuria.I.)
This is a late eighteenth-century botanical plate collection, the first century of Joseph Jacob von Plenck's medicinal plant illustrations, published in Vienna in 1788 and held by Heidelberg University Library. The hand-coloured plates are aimed at pharmacists, physicians and students of materia medica. Their precise, botanically accurate drawings of whole plants, roots and flower parts, with dissected details beside each specimen, offer a designer a model of clear scientific layout and labelling.
