Basilius Besler. The Garden at Eichstätt

by Klaus Walter Littger, Werner Dressendörfer

Overview

The 367 exquisite hand-colored plates of the Hortus Eystettensis, published in 1613 with elaborate descriptions to record the palatial gardens in Eichstätt, Bavaria, were a landmark in botanical illustration. This facsimile edition, featuring authoritative texts and a present-day classification, preserves a treasured florilegium for posterity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836594332
Publisher:	TASCHEN
Publication date:	02/13/2024
Edition description:	Multilingual Edition
Pages:	1096
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 12.70(h) x 5.60(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Klaus Walter Littger was deputy director of the Eichstätt-Ingolstadt UniversityLibrary, and head of the university's collection of historical books and manuscripts. In addition to essays on German language and literature, he has published numerous works on the history of libraries as well as the diocese and University of Eichstätt, and on the history of its local music. He is also co-editor of a journal and a series on the history of the diocese.

Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has written extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history, and is the author of many of TASCHEN’s botanical publications.

Editorial Reviews

"The beauty of the illustrations and the quality of the print are a real treat... The book is the true garden. And therein lies the great value of the reprint. It is a botanical cabinet of curiosities."

Gartenkunst

This book should find its way to many a library and coffee table.

Chicago Botanic Garden Book Review

"One of the most magnificent historical documentations of botany... A magnum opus with hand-colored illustrations and detailed descriptions of 90 plant families, many of exotic origin. It seems even more eccentric, more exotic than the approach of the documentation at the time to publish a facsimile today: a wonderful homage to the Gutenberg galaxy threatened with extinction. Thank you, thank you!"

Der Standard

"The compendium presents what one can encounter in nature so vividly, as if the plants and flowers were unique personalities, so precisely, lifelike and almost vividly they appear here page after page. This enormous book in folio format as a splendid edition makes an immediate impression... It is a heroic effort of TASCHEN to reprint this impressive work in the most opulent form... Excellently annotated and academically explained."

Süddeutsche Zeitung