Wonderful early buttercup nature print
      
    Kniphof, J. H.
Botanica in originali seu herbarium. Plate not numbered. Ranunculus.
                  Published
                  1757-1764
                
                
                  Item ID
                  72332
                
                
              
                    
      €170.00
          
                              
        
Halle, Trampe, 1757-1764. Folio-size loose nature printing (35.5 x 22.5 cm). Well preserved nature printing with additional hand-colouring and printed caption.
A rare, early example of nature printing, showing the leaves and flowers of a mountain buttercup from Central Europe. This print in very good condition. Some marginal fraying and mostly marginal, lights spotting; a small but slightly larger reddish smudge in the top right outer margin. Five tiny holes on left hand side. No creases or dents present. Fischer, Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck, 7; Stafleu and Cowan, 3763.