Die Entdeckung von Ostindien durch den Admiral Vasco de Gama, ein geographisch-naturhistorisches Lesebuch für die Jugend : mit 6 illuminirten Kupfern
A German children's geography and natural history reader titled on the discovery of the East Indies by Vasco da Gama, compiled by F. A. Weisse and J. Weise and published by Lauffer in 1830 with six hand-coloured copper engravings. The plates pair botanical studies of spice plants such as nutmeg, ginger, cloves and a berry-bearing branch with a scene of Portuguese explorers meeting local people on a shore. A designer could draw on the crisp, tinted botanical drawings with their numbered figure labels and the simple narrative figures in the explorer scene.
