Köhler's Medicinal Plants

Köhler's Medicinal Plants, full title: Köhler's Medicinal Plants in lifelike pictures with short explanatory texts. Atlas of the Pharmacopoeia germanica austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, Neerlandica, British pharmacopoeia, the Codex medicamentarius, and for Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America., Is one of the most famous manuals of the medicinal plants of the late 19th century.

Content

This atlas illustrates and explains about 400 medicinal plants. The accompanying monographs include detailed information on the botany and the medical efficacy of the plant. Are complemented by high-quality texts Chromolithografien, convince both their graphic quality and detail and reflect all the characteristics of the species. Therefore, the images are still likes referenced to explain the plant.

The authors Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt declared ( From the botanical standpoint the finest and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants ), that it was the best and most useful collection of illustrations of medicinal plants from the botanical point of view. The Missouri Botanical Garden Library praises the co-authors, artists Walther Müller and CF Schmidt, K. Gunther as illustrators.

Genesis

The work is based on a work by Hermann Adolph Koehler ( 1834-1879 ). After his death his work by Gustav Pabst was drafted and Walther Müller and CF Schmidt ( * 1812) are color lithographs.

Was published this work by Franz Eugen Köhler botanical publishing over a period from 1883 to 1914 in Gera in three-volume edition. The first complete edition was published in 1887.

Although originally announced by the publisher, a fourth volume was never published.

The author and publisher of Namensgleichgheit leads frequently to the fact that Franz Eugen Köhler is erroneously mentioned as the author.