(2,2): Sechstes Heft. oder des zweitenTheils zweites Heft: Mit vier und zwanzig illuminirten Kupfertafeln
A German natural history part from 1804 by Eugen Johann Christoph Esper, issued by Heidelberg University Library, presenting seaweed species for botanists and naturalists. Its hand-coloured copper plates show Fucus seaweeds drawn with fine branching detail, some in dark brown and others in vivid red and pink, set on plain cream paper with small plate numbers and italic Latin captions. A designer could take the botanical precision of the branching forms and the pale, aged paper tones as a model for organic patterns.
