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Esper's 1800 volume, the first of a series, is a botanical study of seaweeds catalogued by Heidelberg University Library, written for naturalists and botanists. Its hand-coloured copperplate plates show fucus seaweeds drawn as branching fronds, some with a separate detail sprig, in rust, olive and brown tones on cream paper, giving a designer clear models for organic branching forms and natural linework.
