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The botanical treasury : celebrating 40 of the world's most fascinating plants through historical art and manuscripts / curated by Christopher Mills, Head of Library, Art and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Van Pelt Library QK98.3 .B67 2016 1 v. + 40 color plates in clamshell box
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanical illustration.
- Botany in art.
- Botany--Pictorial works.
- Botany.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Botanical illustrations.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm + 40 color prints
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Sweet healer from the north : Angelica / Joanne Yeomans
- The bounty of Botany Bay : Banksia / Christopher Mills
- Ancestors from another age : baobabs : Adansonia / David Goyder
- The fruits of paradise : bromeliads / Marcelo Sellaro
- Barrel-cactus : Ferocactus hamatacanthus / Daniela Zappi
- A beauty from the east : Camellia / Kiri Ross-Jones
- The quest for quinine : Cinchona / Mark Nesbitt
- Oranges and lemons... : Citrus / Gina Fullerlove
- Plants that change body and mind : Datura and Brugmansia / David Goyder
- Seed plants from the dawn of time : Encephalartos / Alios Farion
- From eastern medicine to western gardens : Fritillaria / Martyn Rix
- Growing with dinosaurs : Ginkgo biloba / Julia Buckley
- Exploring the secrets of the bottle gourd : Lagenaria siceraria / Mark Nesbitt
- Lifeblood of the ancient world : grape vine / Anna Trias-Blasi
- The heavy price of sugar cane : Saccharum officinarum / Mark Nesbitt and Maria Vorontsova
- Delicate dancers from the east : handkerchief tree / Martyn Rix
- Everywhere over the rainbow : Iris / Tony Hall
- The search for the Siroi lily : Lilium mackliniae / Lorna Cahill
- The lotus : a sacred symbol of the east : Nelumbo / Julia Buckley
- A primitive pioneer : Magnolia / Chris Clennett
- Maize : a cereal bound for success : Zea mays / Mark Nesbitt and Maria Vorontsova
- A beautiful carnivore : Nepenthes / Christina Harrison
- The power of poppies : Papaver / James Wearn
- Capturing the blue vanda : Vanda coerulea / Lynn Parker
- Orchid fever : Paphiopedilum fairrieanum / Lauren Gardiner
- Traveler of the tropics : coconut palm / Lauren Gardiner
- Steeples from the Zambesi delta : Pandanus / David Goyder
- Weaving fabric from the stuff of life : paper mulberry / Mark Nesbitt
- Power and glory : the climbing passionflower : Passiflora / Christina Harrison
- Proud heralds of spring : Peony / Richard Wilford
- Phoenix from the ashes : Protea / Tony Rebelo
- The secret plants of Sikkim : Rhododendron / Virginia Mills
- Glamor from another age : damask rose / Martyn Rix
- From foul smells to inner stars : Stapelia / David Goyder
- Kew's glorious "bird of paradise" : Strelitzia / Joanne Yeomans
- Fatal attraction : the "corpse flower" of Kew : Amorphophallus titanum / Lynn Parker
- The plant that sparked a flower frenzy : Tulipa / Richard Wilford
- Queen of the waterlilies : Victoria amazonica / Gina Fullerlove
- Plant platypus : Angola's amazing tree-tumbo : Welwitschia / Christina Harrison
- Feed the world : wheat / Mark Nesbitt.
- Notes:
- "This book shows some truly fascinating botanical treasures, and their associated stories will surprise and delight. ... In the following pages, the plants' stories are supported by a wide selection of wonderful images produced over the last 400 years. These paintings, prints and drawings, along with the supporting documents, are all reproduced from originals held in the Library and Archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew."--Introduction.
- Issued in clamshell box.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226369341
- 022636934X
- OCLC:
- 920944448
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