Horse chestnut tree, Aesculus hippocastanum. Vulnerable

Horse chestnut tree, Aesculus hippocastanum. Vulnerable. With blossom, fruit, nut, seed, leaf, section through branch. Horse-chestnut, European horse-chestnut, buckeye or conker tree. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Gotz and C. Ermer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

1813 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Buckeye C. Ermer Carl Bertuch Conrad Westermayr Encyclopedia Engraved Plates F. Gotz Friedrich Johann Bertuch Henriette Westermayr Natural History Picture Book For Children Seed Vulnerable

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