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The Book of Palms presents Carl von Martius's encyclopedic catalogue of all known palm genera, compiled following his Amazonian expedition through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820. This reproduced volume combines detailed botanical classifications with color landscapes, maps, and structural diagrams. Its 19th-century scholarship is rendered with the precision of hand-illustrated plates and annotated cross-sections documenting palm architecture across species.
After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martius compiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detailed classifications, maps, color landscapes and diagrams.
