Original print, eighteenth hotsell century mezzotint hand-colored - Botany - Florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia by Weinmann - Quinquina & Esquine

Quinquina & Esquine

- Cinchona, a small tree native to the slopes of the Northern Andes from which quinine, a famous preventive remedy for malaria, is derived from the bark.
- Esquine, medicinal plant, native to China of the family of Sarsaparillae, having sudorific virtues.

Beautiful original print in mezzotint, hand-colored, engraved by Johann Jacob Haid (1704-1767) and from the famous hotsell Florigium Phytanthoza Iconographia by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, apothecary and botanist and published by H. Lentz and H. G. Neubauer between 1735 and 1745.

Handmade cream carton: 40 x 50 cm.

Delivered without a frame.
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