Prosper Alpinus
£65.00
R Blokhuysen Prosper Alpinus c.1750 Engraving 305 x 205mm Traces of old folds
Description
Three quarter length portrait of Porspero Alpini, 1553 – 1617, Italian physician, botanist and author. He stands at a table right hand placed on an astrolade, his left hand on the table fingers resting against books laying there, the titles De Plantis Aegyptior & Exoticis and De Praesagienda Vita & Morte.
