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### Author
Wirsing, Adam Ludwig (1734-1797), German (Saxonian) botanical artist at Nürnberg.
**Abbreviated name**: *Wirsing* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wirsing*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown. – A collection of 120 col. copper engravings, without text "Sammlung von verschiedenen nach der Natur illuminierten Pflanzen", Nürnberg, by A.L. Wirsing, is at the Natl. Library, Vienna.
#### Bibliography and biography
BM 2: 747, 5: 2340; Dryander 3: 78; NI 2: 274 (index); PR 9496, 9500, 10343, ed. 1: 11316; Rehder 1: 262; TL-1/1327, 1331; TL-2/15.130, 15.135
#### Biofile
- Anon., Cat. gén. livr. impr, Bibl. natl. 225: 291-293. 1976.
- Nissen, C, Philobiblon 6: 347. 1933.
#### Composite works
- (1) Engraver for M.F. Ledermüller, *Phisicalisch mikroskopische Vorstellung*... Nürnberg 1765 (see NI 1157; see also no. 1160).
- (2) Engraver, J.C. Schaeffer, *Fung. Bavar. Palat. nasc.* 1762-1771, TL-2/10.476.
- (3) Engraver and publisher, C.J. Trew, *Hort. nitid.* 1750-1786 (TL-2/15.130) and pl. *rar*. 1763 (TL-2/15.135).
### Publications
##### n.18.031. Eclogae botanicae
**Title**
*Eclogae botanicae* e dictionario regni vegetabilis Buc'hodziano collectae exhibens plantarum antea ineditarum icones ad prototypa accuratissime expressas cura A.L. Wirsing chalcographi norimbergensis cum descriptionibus et adnotationibus necessarius. Manipulus I. Norimbergae \[Nürnberg\] 1778. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Eclog. bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1778, p. \[i-iv\], pl. *1-10* (uncol. copp.). *Copy*: NY.