Martius, The book of Palms
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Жанр : Taschen
Издательство : Taschen
Год издания : 2010
Аннотация:
On 15 December 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 – 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.