(Centuria III.)
This is a late eighteenth-century German botanical plate book, Centuria III, by Joseph Jacob von Plenck, published in Vienna in 1790 for a scholarly and medical readership. Its hand-coloured plates show medicinal plants labelled with Latin and German names, each drawn as a full specimen with roots, flowers, fruit and details. A designer might take from them the precise, schematic botanical layout, with leaves and stems arranged on the page and small dissected parts placed beside the main figure.
