(Centuria VI. Et Ultima.)
This is a late eighteenth-century botanical plate book, issued in Vienna in 1794 by Joseph Jacob von Plenck and published by Viennese booksellers for botanists and students of medicinal plants. The hand-coloured copperplate plates show whole plants with root, flower, fruit and seed details arranged around the stem on pale cream paper, with Latin and German captions set in the lower margin. A designer might take the orderly specimen layout, the tinted botanical line work, and the labelled inset details as a model for scientific diagrams or heritage-style printed sheets.
