Syrian pear, Pyrus syriaca 1, and Chinese crab apple, Malus spectabilis 2. Pyrus syriacus, Pyrus spectabilis. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Götz and C. Ermer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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