The botanical treasury celebrating 40 of the world's most fascinating plants through historical art and manuscripts /

For centuries, an eclectic group of plants have captivated the world and propelled explorers to extraordinary lengths to collect them. The botanical treasury brings together centuries of botanical adventures and discoveries. It features a full-color exploration of our most important and interesting...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Library, Art & Archives
Other Authors: Mills, Christopher (Librarian) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm + 40 color prints.
Subjects:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Botanical illustration.
Botany in art.
Botany -- Pictorial works.

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500 |a Issued in clamshell box. 
500 |a "This book shows some truly extraordinary plants, and their associated stories will surprise and delight. ... In the pages following, 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. 
505 0 |a Sweet healer from the north -- The bounty of Botany Bay -- Ancestors from another age: baobabs -- The fruits of paradise -- Prickles, petals and twisted spines -- A beauty from the east -- The quest for quinine -- Oranges and lemons ... -- Plants that change body and mind -- Seed plants from the dawn of time -- From eastern medicine to western gardens -- Growing with dinosaurs -- Exploring the secrets of the bottle gourd -- Lifeblood of the ancient world -- The heavy price of sugar cane -- Delicate dancers from the east -- Everywhere over the rainbow -- The search for the Siroi lily -- The lotus: a sacred symbol of the east -- The sky's the limit: magnificent magnolias across the world -- Maize: a cereal bound for success -- A beautiful carnivore -- The power of poppies -- Capturing the blue vanda -- The orchid queen -- Traveller of the tropics -- Steeples from the Zambesi delta -- Weaving fabric from the stuff of life -- Power and glory: the climbing passionflower -- Proud heralds of spring -- Phoenix from the ashes -- The secret plants of Sikkim -- "one perfect rose": the delicate damask -- From foul smells to inner stars -- Kew's glorious "bird of paradise" -- Fatal attraction: the "corpse flower" of Kew -- The plant that sparked a flower frenzy -- Queen of the waterlilies -- Plant platypus: Angola's amazing tree-tumbo -- Feed the world. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index. 
520 |a For centuries, an eclectic group of plants have captivated the world and propelled explorers to extraordinary lengths to collect them. The botanical treasury brings together centuries of botanical adventures and discoveries. It features a full-color exploration of our most important and interesting plants; facsimiles of rarely seen letters, maps, and journals from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and forty beautifully reproduced prints. Equally extraordinary are the stories associated with the discovery of these plants, revealing the lengths to which collectors and growers would go to find them. 
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