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| Title | Icones plantarum medicinalium |
| Detail Depicted | Illustrations--Intaglio--Engravings |
| Creator/Author | Zorn, Johannes |
| Publisher | Raspe |
| Place of Publication | Nurnberg [Germany--Nuremberg] |
| Date of Publication | 1784-1790 |
| Genre Heading | Early printed books--1701-1800 (18th century)
Herbals
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| Bibliographic Elements | 6 v. : front., col. plates ; (8vo) |
| Printing Method | Printed on handmade laid paper |
| Image Production Process | Intaglio--Engravings
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| Illustrator | Thanner, B. |
| General Notes | This is plate number 18 taken from the work "Icones plantarum medicinalium". It illustrates the plant "asphodelus luteus" (king's spear or yellow asphodelus).
This is from the 2nd edition of the work, published between 1783 and 1790. Zorn was a pharmacist based in Kempten, Bavaria in Germany. He was fascinated by plants of the new world and in 1786 published "Drey hundert auserlesene amerikanische gewachse". "Icones plantarum" was later translated into Dutch and published in Amsterdam by J. C. Sepp & Son.
This is leaf number 44 taken from the modern collection entitled: Herbals of five centuries; 50 original leaves taken from German, French, Dutch, English, Italian, and Swiss herbals; with an introduction and bibliography by Claus Nissen. Zurich: L'Art Ancien, Olten, Weiss-Hesse [etc.], 1958. |
| Digital Collection | Historical Bookarts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare Books QK 98 N57 1958 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text or image at 400 dpi saved in TIFF format, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
| Restrictions/Copyright | Some of our items are fragile and may require an appointment for use. Please contact Special Collections. |
