Mabberley, D.J. Botanical Revelation. European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin. 1st. Ed. Pub. NewSouth. 2019
pp.xi, 372 with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. The dustwrapper folds out to reveal, on the reverse, a facsimile map of New South Wales which was released in 1825. Out of print.
A ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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