Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration - Hardcover

Aitken, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853319553 ISBN 13: 9780853319559

Verlag: Lund Humphries - IPSUK, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

'This is a book to treasure. Lavishly illustrated, lovingly written, globally inclusive…' (Choice). Hailed on publication as essential reading for anyone interested in plants and gardens, Botanical Riches is now available for the first time in a beautifully produced paperback edition.The botanical riches of this book are twofold. This is firstly a book about plants themselves, and the story of their exploration, appreciation, introduction and exploitation through the ages. But it is equally about the collective library of books that document this botanical exploration and appreciation of plants, and the history and craft of botanical illustration. Botanical Riches is magnificently illustrated with some of the world's most glorious engraved, lithographed and hand-coloured botanical illustrations, from the earliest Renaissance herbals to elaborate and beautiful volumes from the golden age of printing.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

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Richard Aitken is a writer, architect, curator and historian who has edited the Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens. A founder member of the Australian Garden History Society, he has written and lectured on garden history. He has also prepared conservation plans for gardens in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lund Humphries - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0853319553
• ISBN 13: 9780853319559
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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