Der Gart, Mainz, 1485 Poster card " a lounging black-haired beauty

" a lounging black-haired beauty

fold lines pieces missing around the poster

Original vintage print showing sketches of several types of sailboats

George Dzundza

Der Gart, Mainz, 1485 Poster card " a lounging black-haired beauty"Der Gart der Gesundheit. Printed at Mainz in 1485 by Peter Schoeffer. This is the first herbal to be printed in a language other than classical Greek or Latin, having been written in a South German dialect. Peter Schoeffer had been associated with the reputed inventor of printing, Johann Gutenberg. A number of the illustrations in Der Gart depart from the usual medieval custom of copying from earlier models, and were drawn from nature for use in the