Werner Dressendörfer

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved. First published in 1613, the 367 copperplate engravings by Basilius Besler (1561-1629) capture the spectacular diversity of the palatial gardens of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von...

Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) was a founding father of modern botany, honoured to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding colour, fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research in his New Herbal, a catalogue of some 500 types of plants and their healing properties. While a dependable scientific reference, the New Herbal won fame...