Curtis Botanical – Plate 6640 – Campo's Saxifrage

Original antique black-and-white print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 6640.

A Spanish endemic saxifrage named for Francisco de Paula Campos, a 19th-century Spanish botanist. Saxifraga means 'stone-breaker' — these plants wedge into rock crevices and were thought by medieval herbalists to dissolve kidney stones (doctrine of signatures).

Spanish heritage connection.

Uncolored plate. Condition consistent with age of volume. Each print is a unique piece of botanical history, printed on paper aged over a century.

This is an original uncolored (plain) plate from leftover publisher stock of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, printed in London. It was issued uncolored and never bound. We bought the holding at the estate of a Chicago rare bookseller. Labels and stock papers from the British dealer Wheldon & Wesley came with it. Library stamps, when present, are noted on the listing.