The botanical treasury : : celebrating 40 of the world's most fascinating plants through historical art and manuscripts /

Material type: 図書

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Publisher: The University of Chicago Press,

Publication date: 2016.

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: 175 pages : ; 28 cm + + 40 color prints.

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Note (General)：: Sweet healer from the north -- The bounty of Botany Bay -- Ancestors from another age: baobabs -- The fruits of paradise -- Barrel-cactus -- A beauty ...

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東京都立中央図書館
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470.2-B74-B2
Book Registration Number：
7110371518
東京都立中央図書館

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 022636934X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226369341 (cloth : alk. paper)
Title: The botanical treasury : : celebrating 40 of the world's most fascinating plants through historical art and manuscripts /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Chicago : : The University of Chicago Press,
Publication Date: 2016.
Extent: 175 pages : ; 28 cm + + 40 color prints.
Contributor: curated by Christopher Mills.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 470.2 : Botany
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Sweet healer from the north -- The bounty of Botany Bay -- Ancestors from another age: baobabs -- The fruits of paradise -- Barrel-cactus -- A beauty from the east -- The quest for quinine -- Oranges and lemons ... -- Plants that change body and mind -- Seed plants from the dawn of time -- From eastern medicine to western gardens -- Growing with dinosaurs -- Exploring the secrets of the bottle gourd -- Lifeblood of the ancient world -- The heavy price of sugar cane -- Delicate dancers from the east -- Everywhere over the rainbow -- The search for the Siroi lily -- The lotus: a sacred symbol of the east -- A primitive pioneer -- Maize: a cereal bound for success -- A beautiful carnivore -- The power of poppies -- Capturing the blue vanda -- Orchid fever -- Traveller of the tropics -- Steeples from the Zambesi delta -- Weaving fabric from the stuff of life -- Power and glory: the climbing passionflower -- Proud heralds of spring -- Phoenix from the ashes -- The secret plants of Sikkim -- Glamor from another age -- From foul smells to inner stars -- Kew's glorious "bird of paradise" -- Fatal attraction: the "corpse flower" of Kew -- The plant that sparked a flower frenzy -- Queen of the waterlilies -- Plant platypus: Angola's amazing tree-tumbo -- Feed the world.
Issued in clamshell box.
"This book shows some truly extraordinary plants, and their associated stories will surprise and delight. ... In the pages following, the plants' stories are supported by a wide selection of wonderful images produced over the last 400 years. These paintings, prints and drawings, along with the supporting documents, are all reproduced from originals held in the Library and Archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew."--Introduction.
Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
Note (Library): 301
Call No.: 470.2-B74-B2
Data Provider (Database): 東京都立中央図書館 : 公共図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352031040
7110371518
OCLC No.: 2015034532
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2015034532
(OCoLC)920944448
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)920944448