Popular History of the Palms and their Allies – Mauritia vinifera
Published by Lovell Reeve, London, 1856
Based on the work of Berthold Seemann ,was a botanist who made his name when he was appointed naturalist (on the recommendation of W J Hooker) to HMS Herald for the Kellett voyage of exploration to the American West Coast and Pacific.
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Original lithographs printed by Vincent Brookes 1856. Presented in a cream mount with a faux bamboo frame.
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