EditorialGood King Henry or poor-man's asparagus, Chenopodium bonus-henricus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1802.
EditorialAsparagus, Asparagus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Uni...
EditorialAsparagus, Asparagus officinalis, with root, stalk, berry. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Tu...
EditorialGood King Henry or poor man's asparagus, Chenopodium bonus Henricus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Euro...
EditorialAsparagus plant, Asparagus officinalis, bush 189 and stalk 190. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobi...
EditorialAsparagus, Asparagus officinalis, native to Europe and western Asia. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical...