Bibliotheca Universalis

Martius

The Book of Palms

Lack, H. Walter

Trees of paradise: Exquisite illustrations of the tropical palm On December 13, 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.

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Beschrijving Bibliotheca Universalis: Martius

After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing...

ISBN: 9783836556231
Pagina's: 568
Verschenen: 01-01-2015
Serie: Bibliotheca Universalis
NUR: 640

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Hardback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Taschen GmbH

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