Klaus Walter Littger was deputy director of the Eichstätt-Ingolstadt University Library, and head of the university's collection of historical books and manuscripts. In addition to essays on German language and literature, he has published numerous works on the history of libraries as well as the diocese and University of Eichstätt, and on the history of its local music. He is also co-editor of a journal and a series on the history of the diocese. Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has written extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history, and is the author of many of TASCHEN’s botanical publications.

"One of the most magnificent historical documentations of botany... A magnum opus with hand-colored illustrations and detailed descriptions of 90 plant families, many of exotic origin. It seems even more eccentric, more exotic than the approach of the documentation at the time to publish a facsimile today: a wonderful homage to the Gutenberg galaxy threatened with extinction. Thank you, thank you!"

Klaus Walter Littger was deputy director of the Eichstätt-Ingolstadt University Library, and head of the university's collection of historical books and manuscripts. In addition to essays on German language and literature, he has published numerous works on the history of libraries as well as the diocese and University of Eichstätt, and on the history of its local music. He is also co-editor of a journal and a series on the history of the diocese. Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has written extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history, and is the author of many of TASCHEN’s botanical publications.

"One of the most magnificent historical documentations of botany... A magnum opus with hand-colored illustrations and detailed descriptions of 90 plant families, many of exotic origin. It seems even more eccentric, more exotic than the approach of the documentation at the time to publish a facsimile today: a wonderful homage to the Gutenberg galaxy threatened with extinction. Thank you, thank you!"