Author: VAN RAVENSWAAY, CHARLES
Title: Drawn from Nature: The Botanical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons
Description: Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1984, 1st. (ISBN: 0874749387). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/8", 357pp. beautifully illustrated with 95 full page, full color plates and b'w reproductions within the text. Pale green cloth with green titles, green patterned endpapers. "Joseph Prestele (1796-1867) was a flower painter and a master of lithography, the technique of engraving on stone. Skilled in painting and botany, he produced work of aesthetic and scientific value. His three sons, Joseph Jr. (1824-1880s), Gottlieb (1827-1892) and William Henry (1838-1895), followed in his footsteps." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine/Near Fine.

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