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von Martius. The Book of Palms
H. Walter Lack
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Hardback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: AGN; PST; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a reference to his groundbreaking Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum (Natural History of Palms: a work in three volumes), published between 1823 and 1853. At the time, this encyclopedic treasury contained the sum of human knowledge on the topic, and included 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations, including landscape views of palm habitats and botanical dissections.This epic folio was based on von ... Read more
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a reference to his groundbreaking Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum (Natural History of Palms: a work in three volumes), published between 1823 and 1853. At the time, this encyclopedic treasury contained the sum of human knowledge on the topic, and included 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations, including landscape views of palm habitats and botanical dissections.This epic folio was based on von ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836566148
SKU
V9783836566148
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-16
About H. Walter Lack
H. Walter Lack is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin and former Director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN's Garden of Eden and The ... Read more
Reviews for von Martius. The Book of Palms
A landmark in taxonomic description, botanical illustration, and the realistic representation of species in the landscape.