1800 Original Mistletoe, Tobacco, Aconite, Poisonous Plants by Vietz

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Phoenix dactylifera date Palm VI350 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32	Sanguis draconis Palm VI352 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32	Ulmus pumila VI349 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27


Aloe humilis VI354 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Horse Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum VI353 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Aloe humilis VI355 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27


Maple, Acer pensylvanicum VI363 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Maple, Acer campestris VI360 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Maple, Acer platanoides VI361 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27


Pine, Pinus sativa VI364 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Pine, Pinus sylvestris VI365 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Pine, Pinus cembra VI366 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32


Cedar, Pinus cedrus VI367 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32	Pine, Pinus strobus VI368 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Pine, Pinus picea VI369 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27


Larch, Pinus larix VI370 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27	Spruce, Pinus abies VI371 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32	Valeriana phu VI347 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $27


Juniper, Juniperus sabina VI375 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32	Yew, Taxus baccata VI374 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Thuja occidentalis VI373 ~~$65~~ Sale Price: $32

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We are delighted to present a selection of these exceedingly rare & beautiful original hand colored copper engravings from the monumental Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicarum, published in Vienna from 1800 to 1822. Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz (1772-1815) was the artist and engraver. In its entirety, this work consists of 11 volumes with 1100 botanical plates.

It was published at a time when Germany was transitioning from the overblown & elaborate Rococo style to the classic & elegant Biedermeier period. Under the neo-classical influence, design became simpler and more sophisticated. The style of Vietz is unique, in that it is a distillation of the work of many great botanical illustrators such as Blackwell, Weinman, Zorn & Woodville into a form that is superbly beautiful, with some of the most highly decorative engravings of all time. Vietz was an Austrian physician and Doctor of Medicine in Vienna & later on a Professor of forensic medicine at Vienna.

This monumental work is one of the rarest of all such publications, the British Natural History Museum writes of its own copy:

"Today, the work appears to be of extreme rarity, not being held in any other of the United Kingdom's national or public library collections. Only three copies have been found in North American libraries, of which two are certainly fragile and in need of conservation. One copy is in the Austrian National Library."