Flora Batava 1800-1934: De wilde planten van Nederland
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Esther van Gelder, Norbert Peeters
KB Nationale Bibliotheek & Lannoo, 2023
€99,00
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The Flora Batava is more than an inventory of wild plant species: it is the longest-running declaration of love for Dutch flora.
When publisher Jan Christiaan Sepp started in 1800 with an illustrated survey of all Dutch plants, he could never have imagined that the last part would not appear until 1934. In the end, the Flora Batava consisted of 461 episodes, divided over 28 books: a titanic work to which an extensive circle of amateur botanists, professors and artists contributed. This resulted in the most complete inventory of the country’s wild flora to date. A collection that also beautifully illustrates the major changes in the Dutch landscape, science and the appreciation of the national nature.
This unique reissue in one binding contains a collection of all 2240 plates with more than 2630 plants, mushrooms, lichens and algae painted from life. Moreover, one hundred iconic species have been selected from this, which are highlighted in full size and with the original text and provided with a new story written by a network of contemporary connoisseurs and admirers of plants. Together with the extensive introduction and the species register, this new Flora Batava gives a colorful picture of our plant world and the special things it contains. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789401486668
