Garden Eden Meisterwerke Der Botanischen Illustration = Garden Eden: Masterpieces Of Botanical Illustration = Un Jardin D’Eden: Chefs-D’Oeuvre de L’Illustration Botanique ENG/F/D – H Walter Lack Aanbieding

This survey of 483 fine color plates from outstanding works of botanical illustration from the 6th-20th centuries, paralleling a concurrent exhibit at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, indeed evokes the Garden of Eden. Lack (Free U. of Berlin), director of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, provides a trilingual German-English-French essay “on the diversity of the plant kingdom” and introductions to the work of each illustrator. The non-German text rates a smaller font size. Annot…