This oversize (10.5x14") paperback contains color reproductions on heavy paper of botanical prints by a 17th-century amateur botanist, making them suitable for

When Prince Bishop von Gemmingen founded Germany's famous garden at Eichstätt in the early seventeenth century, its lush beauty was recorded in magnificent cop

Hortus Eystettensis was published in 1613 to document a garden created by the Prince-Bishop of EichstStt which contained all the shrubs and flowering plants kno

Large-scale wall charts were fundamental tools of classroom instruction throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here for the

Consists of plates collected together in Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, a gardening book first published in 1613. Among the botanic gardens ... that of the Bisho