a. Pistacia seu Terebinthus Indica Pistache. b. Pistacia sylvestris seu Staphylodendron Nez coupez. N. 816. [Pistachio].
Engraving printed in color and finished by hand, 1737-45.
Paper size 14 9/16 x 9 3/4" (370 x 246 mm).
Good condition and color save for a single stain mark and a soft abrasion mark in image. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 71261
Price: $275.00
Publisher : Published in Ratisbon, Germany.
From Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's "Phytanthoza Iconographia". This beautiful work provides a nearly complete record of the flowers, fruits and vegetables cultivated in the early 18th century. The plates are among the earliest examples of color printing from a single plate. 18th-19th Century Subjects, Natural History - Botanicals, Johann Weinmann