Palm Trees
1678 - 1703
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Copper engraved double-page plates of palm trees, with later hand-coloring, from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus.
The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and subtropical plants and fruits and one of the first major natural history works to make extensive use of Arabic Botanical nomenclature. “One of the most celebrated of pre-Linnean books...an important contribution to the Botany and Ethnobotany of Southern India” (Blunt and Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration p. 153). Rheede was the colonial governor of Malabar on the southwest coast of India and, when not occupied with official duties, an enthusiastic botanist and investigator of the Indian subtropical flora. Initially he encouraged local people to collect plants for him and employed learned Brahmins to supply information.
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