Book ID: 97664
San Pio Aladren, M. P. (ed.)
Mutis y la Real expedicion botanica del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. 2008. Many col. plates & figs. 359 p. Cloth. - In Spanish, with extra fascicle of 60 p. of English text. - In Box (28 x 33 cm).
Summary: Presentation (Gonzalo Nieto Feliner)/ Introduction (Pedro Lain Entralgo)/ Jose Celestino Mutis: History of a Passion (Marcelo Frias Nunez)/ Newton in New Granada (Luis Carlos Arboleda Aparicio)/ Jose Mutis and Medicine (Emilio Quevedo V.)/ Mutis, the Botanist (Santiago Diaz - Piedrahita)/ Mutis and Spanish Natural History, 1749 - 1760 (Jose Antonio Amaya)/ Artistic Aspects of the Royal Botanical Expedition of New Granada (Carmen Sotos Serrano)/Mutis Iconography/ The Jose Celestino Mutis Documentary Collection in the Archive of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (Cristina Canchado Cordoba, Ma. Pilar de San Pio Aladren, a. oth)/ The Mutis Herbarium (Paloma Blanco Fernandez de Caleya)/ Description of the Jose Celestino Mutis Collection in the Archive of the Royal Botanical Garden (Cristina Canchado Cordoba)/ Inventory of the drawings of the Flora of Bogota in the Archive of the Royal Botanical Garden (Iria Casal Romero).
This is an attractive bibliophile volume at a remarkably low price.