This comprehensive and attractive work won favor for the information it provided and for the quality of its 1025 color illustrations. At the time, there was practically nothing else like it. Georg Dionysus Ehret, destined to become the foremost botanical illustrator of the Mid-18th Century, made many of its drawings.
Full Title: Phytanthoza iconographia, sive, Conspectus aliquot millium :tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus longâ‚ annorum serie indefesoque studio /à Joanne Guilielmo Weinmanno ... ; collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticam, florum, fructuum, fungorum, &c., quae nitidissime aeri incisae, & simul diu desiderata ac recens inventa arte, vivis coloribus & iconibus, naturae aemulis, excusae & representatae per Bartholomaeum Seuterum, Joannem Eliam Ridingerum et Joannem Jacobum Haidium ... quorum denominationes characteres, Genera, Species & descriptiones ex optimis, tam priscis quam neotericis auctoribus, ordine ac serie alphabetica, cum probatissimo, usu medico, pharmaceutico, chirurgico, ac oeconomico, Latino & Germanico idiomate sincere explicantur à D. Joanne Georgio Nicolao Dieterico ... [continued by L.M. Dieterichs and A.C. Bieler].
By: Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm,1683-1741. Bieler, Ambrosius Karl,1693-1747. Dieterichs, Johann Georg Nicolaus,1681-1737. Haid, Johann Jacob,1704-1767. Heinrich Georg Neubauer. Hieronymum Lentz. Ridinger, Johann Elias,1698-1767. Seuter, Bartholomäus,1678-1754.
Publication info: Sumptibus imprimebatur Ratisbonae [Regensburg] :Per Hieronymum Lentzium,1737-1745.
Call Number:QK41.W46 1737 -45 [#914- 917]
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