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Martius. The Book of Palms (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Martius. The Book of Palms (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
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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. The fronds were a reference
to his groundbreaking Natural History of Palms: a work in three
volumes, published between 1823 and 1853. This encyclopedic
treasury of 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations was
based on von Martius's expeditions through Brazil and Peru. From
1817 to 1820, he traveled over 2,250 km (1,400 miles) through the
Amazon basin to investigate natural history and native tribes with
zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix. The result was an unrivaled
catalogue of all known genera of the palm family, outlining the
modern classification of palms, describing all the palms of Brazil,
and producing the first maps of palm biogeography. Von Martius's
folio is unusual in its inclusion of cross-sectioned diagrams,
conveying the architecture of these mighty trees, which central
Europeans would have found hard to imagine accurately. Equally
remarkable are the color landscapes showing various palms-often
standing alone in simple and elegant beauty. About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating
the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
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