Zoological sheets, Weinmann 18th century

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A total of 3 old colored copperplate engravings with mezzotint, decorative plant motifs in masterful coloring for the time, with 2 plates printed by Johann Jakob Haid (1704 near Göppingen - 1767 Augsburg): 1 x species of Jacob's Ragwort, numbered "N.600.", 1 x olive trees and sea buckthorn, numbered "N.764.", plus 1 x printed by Bartholomäus Seutter (1678 Augsburg - 1754 ibid.), liquorice and dysentery herb, each monogrammed "H." and "S.", each inscribed in Latin and partly in German at the bottom in the legend, each with signs of age (e.g. evenly browned, edge areas 1 x water-stained), otherwise in very good condition, each sheet approx. 39 x 25 cm, plates from: Johann Wilhelm Weinmann: "Phytanthoza-Iconographia or the actual idea of several thousand plants, trees, perennials, herbs, flowers, fruits and sponges, both native and foreign, collected from all four parts of the world (...)", vol. 3, Regensburg, Hieronymus Lentzen, 1742