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Images from Hortus Eystettensis, or the Florilegium (Plants of the Four Seasons) by Basilius Besler. I have a fac-simile, not the original book. It is a very large physical obejct, heavy to lift, and the plates were hand-coloured. This book changed the study of botany.
Title: Hortus Eystettensis
City: Nuremberg
Date: 1613
Total items: 2
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Clematis Daphnoides major.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Besler-Florilegium/wm/big/035-5-clematis-periwinkle-q75-98x200.jpg "[picture: Clematis Daphnoides major.]")
This is the Periwinkle, with a blue flower. [$]
![[picture: Chamæiris angustis foliis minor.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Besler-Florilegium/wm/big/137-3-beardless-purple-iris-q75-115x200.jpg "[picture: Chamæiris angustis foliis minor.]")
Chamæiris angustis foliis minor.
Beardless purple iris, with a blue-purple flower. [$]
Images from Hortus Eystettensis, or the Florilegium (Plants of the Four Seasons) by Basilius Besler. I have a fac-simile, not the original book. It is a very large physical obejct, heavy to lift, and the plates were hand-coloured. This book changed the study of botany.
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