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Weinmann Spices, Cinnamon and Cumin. Culilawan and Cuminum c1740

Weinmann Spices, Cinnamon and Cumin. Culilawan and Cuminum c1740

by Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm

Rare 18th Century spices, Cinnamon, Cumin antique print.

Original copperplate engraving by Johann-Jakob Haid (1704-1767), with etched outline and colour-printed interior (hand-finished). This is one of the earliest examples of colour-printing with watercolour from a single plate - published from 1737 to 1745 for Phytanthoza Iconographia, a survey of thousands of native and foreign plants, by Regensburg apothecary Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741).

Weinmann created a botanical garden in Regensburg, published the Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca (Alphabetical Pharmaceutical Catalogue) in 1723, and contributed botanical notes as 'Observationes und Anmerkungen' in the Breslauer Sammlungen.  His grandest achievement was his Phytanthoza Iconographia, a florilegium with more than 1,000 engravings of several thousand plants and trees. Weinmann employed a number of capable illustrators, including Georg Dionysus Ehret (1708-1770).

Rare 18th century engraving in fine condition except for a little foxing. Page size: 385 x 240mm (15.25 x 9.5 inches).

Stock Number: apWein447Price: $325.00

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