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(Centuria II.)

Plenck, Joseph Jacob von, Rudolph Gräffer & Comp. [Hrsg.], Camesinaische Buchhandlung [Hrsg.], Geistinger'sche Buchhandlung [Hrsg.], Joseph [Bearb.], Blumauer, Alois [Bearb.], Degen, Joseph Vinzenz [Bearb.] · 1789 · 44 pictures

This is a botanical plate book, Centuria II of Joseph Jacob von Plenck's illustrated medical plant series, published in Vienna in 1789 by several Viennese booksellers for physicians and pharmacists. Its hand-coloured plates show plants with a main stem and leaves, often with seeds, fruit, or roots drawn separately beside them, labelled in Latin and German. A designer could take from them the precise, layered botanical layout of a specimen, with the whole plant on one side and its parts arranged in a clean column on the other.

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