Title page,Hortus Eystettensis, Diligens et accurata omnium plantrium, florium, stirpium, qvae, ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis...'
Original copper engraving, uncolored. The frontispiece to 'Hortus Eystettensis' by Basilius Besler, published first in 1613, here the edition for the jubilee edition 1713. Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen commissioned Besler to produce the work, which he took sixteen years to put together, although the bishop died before completing it. With the support of his brother and a group of experienced German draftsmen and engravers, including Sebastian Schedel, an accomplished painter, and Wolfgang Kilian, an experienced engraver from Augsburg. They engraved the first copper plates. After the bishop's death, the company moved to Nuremberg. New engravers completed the book, including Johannes Leypold, Georg Gärtner, Levin and Friedrich van Hulsen, Peter Isselburg, Heinrich Ulrich, Dominicus Kustos and Servatius Raeven.
| Issue date: | 1713 |
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| Published place: | Nürnberg & Eichstätt |
| Publisher: | Konrad Bauer |
| Technique: | Copper engraving / Uncolored |
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