Varia: Three Botanicals; One Map; Twelve Text Leaves.

Description:

Varia: Three Botanicals; One Map; Twelve Text Leaves. Two hand-colored woodcut botanical illustrations removed from an 18th century German text: rapuntzeln and walwurz; an uncolored woodcut from a different German botanical: klein basilien; a hand-colored map of Columbia from a New York atlas from 1834; and twelve leaves from a folio-format Latin edition of the works of Vesalius, with woodcut initials on some leaves.
Estimate $200-300


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