Phytanthoza id est accurata delineatio aliquot millium plantarum arborum fructicum herbarum florum fructuum, fungorum collectorum a Joanne Guilelmo Weinmanno et expressit vivis ad veram imaginem coloribus Joannes Jacobus Haidius ... Vol. 1.[-4.], Augusta, 1745
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (Gardelegen 1683 - Regensburg 1741), apothecary and botanist, owed its fame to the monumental Phytanthoza Iconographia (1737-1745), which includes over a thousand hand-coloured engravings of plants (exotic, garden, medicinal, accompanied by the respective texts in Latin and German) and that is probably the most important compendium of botanical studies of the eighteenth century. There are, however, some doubts about the effective correspondence of many tables to the described species. The work, which relies on the use of new engraving techniques that emphasize the details and nuances, engaged some of the most important artists and engravers of the time: Georg Dionysius Ehret, Bartholomaus Seuter, Ridinger Johann, Johann Jacob Haid, while the texts were prepared by Johann Georg Nicolaus Dieterichs and, after the death of Weinmann, by Karl Ambrosius Bieler.
The specimen held by the Library of Sciences (Botany branch), very rare indeed, is probably an edition just subsequent to that of Regensburg (1737-1745), and for which the son of Johann Jakob Haid may have used the material left over in his father's shop. There are eight volumes, four of which are of text (provided with title pages printed but without the mention of the printing seat and name of printer) and four of tables (with carefully handwritten title pages, indicating as a seat Augusta Vindelicorum and as a bookseller precisely Johann Jakob Haid). The title pages mention as the date 1745, but it has been suggested a much later printing date.