Four Seasons of Flowers. A selection of botanical illustrations from the rare book collection at Dumbarton Oaks. 2013. 32 col. pls. XII, 96 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

This book presents a selection of the manuscripts, herbals, andprinted botanical texts in the Rare Book Collection at Dumbarton Oaks.Representing pivotal works in the intellectual history of Europe fromthe 16th to the 20th centuries, these drawings, books, and manuscriptsare among the most significant materials conserverd in the Rare BookReading Room. Each text is accompanied by a remarkable set ofillustrations, whose scientific accuracy and aesthetic beauty testifythe importance of the visual image once the efficacy of the printigpress as an instrument for the furtherance of knowledge in thesciences and technology, from anatomy to zoology and from astronomyto botany, had been fully recognized.