The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redouté's American Masterpiece

Mitwirkender: Fraser, Susan M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A remarkable selection of American forest trees surveyed by François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall from The North American Sylva, held in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden, featuring illustrations by celebrated botanical artists such as Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Pancrace Bessa, with an afterword by natural history artist David Allen Sibley.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abbeville Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 212mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1851g
• ISBN-13: 9780789212764
• ISBN-10: 0789212765
• Artikelnr.: 44522027

Autorenporträt

The New York Botanical Garden hosts more than one million annual visitors to its 250-acre National Historic Landmark site, which features over one million living specimens, as well as one of the world's preeminent plant research and conservation programs. Founded in 1899, the Garden's Mertz Library is one of the largest, most comprehensive botanical libraries in the world. David Allen Sibley is one of the world's best-known natural history illustrators and the author of acclaimed field guides, including The Sibley Guide to Trees, which have sold more than one million copies. Gregory Long is Chief Executive Officer and The William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden. Susan M. Fraser is Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. Marta McDowell is a gardener, lecturer, and horticultural writer. Her books include All the Presidents' Gardens (2016) and Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life (2013), winner of the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association.