Berlin, the author, 1788. Folio-sized leaf (36.0 x 22.2 cm), with original printed and finely hand-coloured engraving of a famous pharmaceutical plant (printed area 24.3 x 15.8 cm).

A delicately hand-coloured plate of the (in)famous cannabis plant, which is renowned for its pharmaceutical qualities, but also questioned because of adverse health effects. The Farmaceutica is a very rare work; it is seldom found complete and even individual plates of plants are rare. A few faint creases, to the right lower and upper corner, mostly outside the printed area, and some browning to the right edge; all not unusual for such an old plate, but generally in very good condition with the original printing and colouring neat, detailed, and strong. Nissen BBI, 784. Stafleu and Cowan (under 2834) "Not seen".