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Libri antichi e moderni

Coats, Alice M.

The Treasury of Flowers

1975

20,68 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1975
Luogo di stampa
New York. McGraw-Hill Book Company
Autore
Coats, Alice M.
Edizione
First American edition.
Soggetto
Nature - Botany Art botanical art
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

small 4to [24 x 17 cm]; unpaginated, 118 plates including 33 in color, bibliography, index of persons, index of plants. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (slightly used, not price clipped), fine and clean in very good+ dust jacket. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, a leading authority of the history of plants, selected the illustrations from old printed books, periodicals and in some cases from unpublished works, from botanical art that was done from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Complementary to her previous, The Book of Flowers, with illustrations from early folios, this book concentrates on works done on a smaller scale, but still finely done, and well-presented with numerous illustrations from original sources.