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Synopsis
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.
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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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Condition: Sehr gut. 568 S. Am 15. Dezember 1868 wurde Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor der Botanik an der Universität München und Leiter des Botanischen Gartens, in einem Sarg zu Grabe getragen, der mit frischen Palmenblättern bedeckt war. Die Farnwedel verwiesen auf sein bahnbrechendes Werk Historia naturalis palmarum: ein Werk in drei Bänden, das zwischen 1823 und 1853 erschienen war.Dieser enzyklopädische Schatz aus 240 exquisiten chromolithografischen Illustrationen basierte auf Martius Expeditionen durch Brasilien und Peru. Von 1817 bis 1820 reiste er zusammen mit dem Zoologen Johann Baptist von Spix über 2.250 km durch das Amazonasbecken, um Flora und Fauna sowie die einheimischen Indianerstämme zu erforschen.Aus dieser Reise entstand ein einzigartiger Katalog sämtlicher bekannter Palmenarten, mit einer modernen Klassifikation der Palme, Beschreibungen aller brasilianischer Palmen und den allerersten Karten der Palmen-Biogeografie. Besonders ungewöhnlich sind Martius Querschnittdiagramme, die Mitteleuropäern den Aufbau dieser mächtigen Bäume nahebrachten, den sie sich sonst nur schwerlich so genau hätten vorstellen können. Ebenfalls erstaunlich sind die farbigen Landschaftsbilder, die verschiedene Palmen zeigen - oftmals vereinzelt und von eleganter Schönheit.Fleck am oberen Buchschnitt, sonst wie neu, :-)) Ge147,56 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1108. Seller Inventory # 21431