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(Centuria IV.)

Plenck, Joseph Jacob von, Rudolph Gräffer & Comp. [Hrsg.], Camesinaische Buchhandlung [Hrsg.], Geistinger'sche Buchhandlung [Hrsg.], Joseph [Bearb.], Blumauer, Alois [Bearb.], Degen, Joseph Vinzenz [Bearb.] · 1791 · 56 pictures

This is a late eighteenth-century botanical plate book, Centuria IV, compiled by Joseph Jacob von Plenck and issued in 1791 by Viennese publishers for botanists and pharmacists. The hand-coloured plates show flowering shrub branches with separate studies of flowers, seeds and fruit, set on pale paper with Latin captions below. A designer could take their clean specimen layouts, tidy botanical labelling and soft natural palette for herbal or apothecary-style graphics.

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