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1826 Scleranthus Annuus German Knotgrass Botanical - ORIGINAL XEO9 the Prix de Rome wasScleranthus Annuus L. (German Knotgrass) Period Paper is pleased to offer a gorgeous collection of hand colored lithographed botanical plates of Swiss flora dating from 1826. This extremely rare collection is the work of Johann Hegetschweiler. Each of these finely drawn and colored plates is accompanied by a page of descriptive text (in German). These exquisite images would look beautiful framed and would make truly distinctive gifts for the botanist