Book ID: 102650
Madrinan, Santiago
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American Plants. Botanical Expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the Publication of the Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia. 2013. 39 col. figs. 264 col. plates. XII, 425 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Offers adetailed account of the Austrian botanical expedition to the Caribbeanbetween 1754 and 1759, culminating in the publication of the SelectarumStirpium Americanarum Historia in 1763 by the famous Dutch-born scientist - the first Linnaean botanist in the New World. Novel findingsof Jacquin's own publications, letters and manuscripts, the authorprovides, from a botanist's perspective, a meticulous description of theplaces visited by Jacquin and the plants he collected. The splendid color illustrations of the plants published in the luxurious secondedition of the Selectarum in 1780 are here reprinted, together with anannotated list of the species described.