Hardcover
1998 · New York
by Swan, Claudia
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1998. Hardcover. VG. creasing to some cover corners. speckled foxing to cover pastedowns, otherwise clean & bright. dustjacket has creasing to corners; edge-wear; slight chips.. Olive cloth, pale green & color illus. dust jacket, 144 pp., 142 color plates, 7 BW illus. "Presents a deluxe portfolio of rare and precious botanical art. Painted in Holland in the late sixteenth century by an unknown hand or hands, these magnificent images were collection by the pharmacist Theodorus Clutius, to be used as reference works for both artists and doctors. ...For lovers of botanical art these exquisite and unique works are therefore a remarkable discovery; rivaling the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer in beauty and accuracy, they represent that dramatic time when brilliant artistic expression matched groundbreaking scientific inquiry: the era we call the Renaissance." (dj).
(Inventory #: 147134)