The Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden

by Stephen Harris

'...la pi? magnifica flora del mondo' [the most magnificent flora in the world]Michele Tenore (1780-1861), Professor of Botany, University of NaplesThe Flora Graeca is one of the most extraordinary botanical publications of all time. The spectacular quality of the botanical illustrations, the size of the publication (10 double folio volumes), its cost on publication (over ?620 in 1830) and the lengths to which people went to see it all added to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851243062
• ISBN13: 9781851243068
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 10.1"