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.
Given the scholarship and quality of the reproductions, this book
is a bargain.
*Chicago Botanic Garden Book Review*
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