de Cuveland, Helga. Flora Exotica. Ein botanisches Prachtwerk von 1720 [A botanical masterpiece from 1720]. 1st. Ed. Pub. Hatje Cantz. 1999
pp.201 with 61 fine col. plates and b/w. text illus. German text. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw., with very gently sunned spine.
Commissioned by Imperial Count Johann Georg Dernath, the painter Johann Gottfried Simula portrayed numerous ornamental and exotic plants from his estate gardens and orangery in Ostholstein in 1720.
£25.00 [Ref: 68851]