Beschreibung:

Weinmann (Johann Wilhelm) Phytanthoza Iconographia, oder eigentliche vorstellung etlicher tausend, sowohl einheimisch als auslandischer… pflantzen, baume, stauden, krauter, blumen, fruchten und schwamme &c ., 4 volumes in 8, text by J.G.N. & L.M. Dieterich (volumes 1-2) and A.K. Bieler (volumes 3-4), titles in Latin and German printed in red and black, parallel text in Latin and German, errata on verso of final index leaf in vol. IV, 2 mezzotint portraits of Weinmann and Bieler, emblematic frontispiece of Ceres attended by Hippocrates, Time and a nymph, all printed in blue, 1025 engraved and mezzotint plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after Georg Dinoysius Ehret, N. Asamin and others, by J. Seuter, J.E. Ridinger and J.J. Haid, 13 folding or double-page, 4 with fore-margins folded,. some light spotting to text and some plates, 4 text leaves loosely inserted, about 150 plates with old stubs on outer blank margins, contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, corner pieces made up from vase, flower spray and insect tools, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, green morocco labels in two, the others with repeat decoration of small tools surrounding a larger central flower spray tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e, corners bumped, slight discolouration, occasional small splits to joints, folio (373 by 238mm.), Regensburg, Hieronymous Lentz (volumes 1-3) and Heinrich Georg Neubauer (volume 4), 1737-1745