THE BOOK OF PALMS
FRIEDRICH C. VON MARTIUS P. LACK H. W.
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Add to basketIl 15 dicembre 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), docente di botanica presso l'Università di Monaco di Baviera e direttore dei Regi giardini botanici, fu sepolto in una bara ricoperta di foglie di palma fresche. Le fronde alludevano alla sua opera pionieristica Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum (Storia naturale delle palme: un'opera in tre volumi), pubblicata tra il 1823 e il 1853. Questa raccolta enciclopedica di 240 mirabili illustrazioni cromolitografiche si basava sulle spedizioni di Martius in Brasile e Perù. Dal 1817 al 1820, infatti, lo studioso percorse oltre 2.250 km nel bacino dell'Amazzonia per indagarne la storia naturale e le tribù indigene insieme allo zoologo Johann Baptist von Spix. Ne risultò un catalogo senza eguali di tutti i generi conosciuti della famiglia delle palme, che delineava la moderna classificazione delle palme, descriveva tutte quelle presenti in Brasile e ne realizzava le prime mappe biogeografiche. Una rarità del volume in folio di Martius è quella di comprendere diagrammi a sezione trasversale per rendere la struttura di questi alberi possenti, che altrimenti gli abitanti dell'Europa centrale avrebbero faticato a immaginare con esattezza. Altrettanto eccezionali sono i paesaggi a colori in cui sono ritratte le varie palme, che spesso si ergono solitarie nella loro semplice ed elegante bellezza. Pagg. 512, rilegato.
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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.
H. Walter Lack is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and former director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Garden of Eden, The Book of Palms and Redouté. The Book of Flowers.
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