Ehret & Macfarlane Fig Blank Journal — Plantae Selectae 1750 Nuremberg & Victorian Zincograph c.1872

The front cover features J. Macfarlane’s coloured zincograph (c. 1872), a fruiting stem with whole and halved fig framed by ornate Victorian botanical borders; the back presents Georg Dionysius Ehret’s Plate 74 for Plantae Selectae (Nuremberg, 1750), commissioned by physician Christoph Jakob Trew — not a portrait of the fig but a dissection: 57 distinct segments showing flowers and fruits at every stage of development, each opened to reveal the hidden architecture of the syconium, the fig not contemplated but comprehended, sectioned and mapped with the precision of a botanical scalpel.

Product Details

• Format: Hardcover blank journal
• Pages: 150 blank perforated pages (75 sheets) for easy removal
• Binding: Casewrap sewn binding that opens flat
• Dimensions: 5.75 × 8 inches (14.6 × 20.3 cm)
• Weight: Approximately 250g (0.55 lbs)
• Cover: Matte laminated full-wrap print
• Production barcode on back cover (0.5" × 0.5")

Perfect For

• Botanical art collectors celebrating Georg Dionysius Ehret’s Plantae Selectae and the Christoph Jakob Trew commission
• Victorian natural history enthusiasts drawn to Macfarlane’s ornate zincograph borders and fruiting fig compositions
• Blank journal lovers who sketch, press flowers, or keep visual field notes of botanical specimens
• Lovers of the fig — its cultivation, its cuisine, its extraordinary hidden architecture
• Thoughtful gift for botanists, gardeners, and anyone captivated by the precision of 18th-century scientific illustration
• Anyone who finds in a dissected syconium the quiet wonder of a world made comprehensible