Traité des arbres, arbrisseaux et arbustes de nos forêts : contenant des descriptions exactes de tout ce qui concerne leur nature et leur culture : accompagné de figures dessinées et enluminées d'après nature
A French treatise on the trees, shrubs and bushes of European forests, written by C. C. Oelhafen and published in 1775 by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, aimed at foresters and students of forest cultivation. Its hand-coloured plates show larch and conifer shoots, cones, needles and buds, each numbered with lettered details, offering a designer clear botanical forms, precise natural structure and a restrained period palette of olive greens and rust browns.
