Ein Garten Eden

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This survey of 483 fine color plates from outstanding works of botanical illustration from the 6th-20th centuries, are from the collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Looking through it does indeed evoke the Garden of Eden! The author H. Walter Lack (Free U. of Berlin, and at one time Director of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem), provides English and French translations of the original German on every page. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. soft cover, pictorial vinyl covers with return flaps, text printed in German, English and French. Slight discolouration of of upper edge pages but otherwsie a good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and illustrated throughout in full colour, 576pp. A lovely book for historians of botanical illustration, and for the general reader / collector.

14 GBP